(A bunch of people missed this and I wanted to make sure it is seen in the easter season–KSH).
This is the real meaning of Easter…
No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb.
The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door. And eternal life which may be ours now, by faith in Christ, is not interrupted when the soul leaves the body, for we live on…and on.
There is no death to those who have entered into fellowship with him who emerged from the tomb. Because the resurrection is true it is the most significant thing in our world today. Bringing the resurrected Christ into our lives, individual and national, is the only hope we have for making a better world.
“Because I live ye shall live also.”
That is the real meaning of Easter.
–Peter Marshall (1902-1949), The First Easter
A few months back I saw a film on TV about the life of Peter Marshall. I had not previously heard of him, but since have seen references to a number of things he said/wrote. What a great man of God! Sadly, recently there were those who have claimed to have found an ossuary containing Jesus’ bones. Unbelievers will stop at nothing to try to disprove the Gospel. Anyway, this passage has been a blessing to me today and I thank you very much for sharing it.