Resurrection doesn't end on a spring Sunday. The church calendar calls the season between Resurrection Sunday and Pentecost Eastertide. For forty days until the Ascension Jesus kept showing up visiting various disciples. Then 10 days later the Holy Spirit showed up to the gathered group, and has been showing up ever since.
The power won by the resurrection and endowed on us by the Holy Spirit is for always. So the fun of Easter eggs and cantatas may be over for this year, but the best part continues, the reality of what it means for Jesus to have risen from the dead.
Victory over sin! Freedom to make the right choice! Escape from death! These are the vestiges we live in daily, when we choose to fully walk in the power of what Jesus offers.
I love spring, it's a whole lot easier to believe in resurrection. My friend noted to me last week that celebrating Easter in the southern hemisphere where fall is bringing winter would feel very different. But whatever the weather outside, new life is available because of Jesus' victory. Celebrate!
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Friedrich Nietzsche said, “The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is… that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” Eugene Peterson wrote a book entitled A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, and as someone who has served in the same city since 1982, I claim that as my something that makes life worth living.
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