Celebrating the Resurrection

by Justin Pearson, Director of Adult Ministries @ MBC Loudoun

With the passing of our celebration of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ this past weekend, I had a thought that I wanted to pass along for your consideration:

Every day should be a day that we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I find that many people go through their lives regularly forgetting to celebrate and think about the death and resurrection of the Savior. I do not believe this is purposeful but, rather, due to passivity. In other words, it isn’t that people are willingly ignoring the reality of the death and resurrection of Jesus, but that they choose not to purposefully think about them.

I know that I am guilty of this. However, I have been challenged to think and meditate on this more every day, not just once a year at Easter.

I want to challenge you to do this in your own life. How can you be more intentional about meditating on the fact that it is through the efficacious death of Jesus and the victorious resurrection of Jesus that you are made spiritually alive and reconciled to the living God? What do you need to change in your life to make this a foundational piece of each day?

Do not forget Romans 5:8—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

What an amazing truth! While we were still in the midst of sin, enemies of God, in utter rebellion—right then—Jesus bore the weight and penalty of our sin on the cross.

Thinking about this everyday will change the way you live life and go about your day. Celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ every day, not just once a year.

1 Corinthians 15:54b-57-

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.