The Greatest News of All

I have to admit there are times when I look at things around me and think “why do I even try?” Bad news is a daily occurrence, people are looking for answers and finding only more problems, the lives of others are in constant turmoil owing to the terrible economy and it seems everyone is worrying about who is going to be the next President of the United States. So many are quick to point out the negatives in our world yet lost in it all is the greatest news of all; He is risen!

If we are to get lost in the anger of a nation sentencing Christ to a death sentence and dwell on the negative fact that all but a few turned away from Him as He hung on the cross dying, then we loose sight of the magnificence of the events only three days later. Christ returned to show that not only did He take upon Himself the transgressions of mankind on the cross but to announce that there is no force able to keep the Messiah in the earth. Christ conquered death; He arose from the grave and He is alive!

There is nothing on earth that can compare to the magnificence of the Greatest News of all. Many may say that we are hanging our hopes on a myth and that there is no way He came back. Nations may claim there is all manner of falsities that have never been empirically proven yet none can explain how a tomb, sealed at the request of the Pharisees to Pilate and guarded by soldiers, was found open and the only evidence of Jesus was the burial shroud and the face cloth folded neatly nearby. My God has risen and my joy is more than the calamity of the world can subdue. Why do I even try? Because my Lord gave it all on the cross so that I may know His love for now and forever.

Shalom

Pastor Todd