Today- and Forever- HE LIVES!!

By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day.

1 Cor. 15:4

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus... Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Romans 8:1, 34-35

Thank God that Jesus Lives!! As we celebrate His resurrection today let us remember that we need to go past the cross.  Let us not stop there where the suffering and apparent defeat lay.  So often, all we can see with our human eyes is the defeat.  We struggle to look past the defeat to the victory that is already won for us.  When we choose Jesus, we choose victory, love, forgiveness, strength, power, humility, grace, mercy, peace and so much more.  We choose to serve a God who crushed the power of death and holds our every moment in His hands. 

I praise Jesus that he uses our struggles to grow our character and that He is strong enough to see us through it all.  He will never leave us nor forsake us and just as Romans says: NOTHING can separate us from His love.  Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father, interceding for us every moment for our entire lives here on Earth when we choose Him.  Nothing is too big for Him, nothing scares Him and nothing will make Him change his mind about us.  He is steady, trustworthy, and he loves us more than we could ever imagine or comprehend. You can never be too far away to come back to the loving embrace of Jesus.

I pray that today you would choose Jesus.  Make a conscious choice to walk in His shadow and down the paths that He has chosen for you.  Enjoy the priceless gift of life that has been given freely to you.

May you live in victory on this Resurrection Sunday and every other day until you meet Jesus face to face.

Listen to the song "Redeemed" by Big Daddy Weave