EASTER CELEBRATION
Easter, as we know, is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.
It commemorates the resurrection of Christ three days after His crucifixion and death.
But when we say “Happy Easter!” what does it really mean to a person?
A triumph of life over death? Of good over evil? Of wellness over sickness? Of love over hate?
Christians believe according to scripture, that Jesus came back to life, or was raised from the dead.
But why is it that people seem to emulate more the humiliation, beating and the agonizing ways by which the Son of God was made to bear until He was nailed, tortured and made to die on the cross that fateful Friday over 2000 years ago?
Why can’t people emulate, instead, the dying and rising from the dead?
Because the last one can never be emulated, right? Wrong!
Man can never be like Christ.
But we can always be Christlike!
It is not through self-flagellation and even the actual crucifixion of shameless penitents in full view of the curious public that will make us Christlike.
It is not the suffering and the anguish that is important.
What is significant is having resurrected, for Christ has demonstrated His power over death.
Power over evil. Power over sickness. Power over hate.
For didn’t the scripture said that, “Through his death, burial and resurrection, Jesus paid the penalty for sin, thus purchasing for all who believe in him, eternal life in Christ Jesus.”
It is a great story of faith and belief.
Having faith in the existence of a Supreme Being. Believing in what you do not see.
Triumph over death, which only the Son of God has been able to do, speaks more of the power of your conviction.
This is what will make us all Christlike.
This is what Easter celebration means to me.
