It's Sunday!

Today I cheated a bit with my bible study. I was only meant to read a small section of Luke chapter 22, but I felt compelled to read the whole Easter story today on Resurrection Day. What an awesome passage of scripture. The death & resurrection of my Saviour.
While the world was having Easter egg hunts and eating chocolate, I and many other Christians were celebrating the fact that Death has been overcome and that we are forgiven! 
When Jesus died on the cross, he took the punishment for the sins of the whole world. That means that everything that we've ever done and are going to do was on the shoulders of God. Jesus took our place, he paid the price for sin. AND...then he conquered death, and rose back to life. He made it possible for us all to have communion with God. He made it possible for us to be part of his family. He tore the curtain in two and allowed us access to God himself. Easter is not about eggs, its not about chocolate, its not about shopping, its not about school holidays, its not about spending time with family, its not about doing the garden or washing the car. 
Easter is about God coming to earth and humbling himself as a man, being brutally murdered on a cross, being placed in a borrowed tomb, coming back to life and restoring the relationship between God and man. That's what Easter is truly about! 

If you don't know Jesus as Lord and Saviour then you can make that decision right now. Jesus died for everyone and so all he asks is that we believe.