We are approaching wedding season. Late spring and early summer is a beautiful time to get married. The weather is usually not too hot or not too cold. God’s creation is coming to life accompanied by beautiful colors. I have no doubt that there will be many beautiful weddings to take place in the coming weeks and months.
But here is the thing. On the day of the wedding the sun might have shine or the rain might fall. The wedding might be featured in “Bridal Magazine” or on America’s Funniest Home Videos. But whether you have a great wedding day or a bad wedding day does not guarantee a great marriage or a bad marriage. The wedding will last one day, the marriage will last a lifetime.
This last weekend, we had a wonderful celebration of the resurrection. Easter Sunday is an incredible day of worship. We bring out our best on this day. It’s beautiful. it takes our breath away. But then it’s over. We go home.
If Easter is just a day, we have missed the whole point. Easter is not just a day. It is a way of living. The Bible says because Jesus lives we too shall live a new life (see Romans 6:4). It doesn’t say Jesus lives that we might have a great celebration once a year, sing Jesus Christ is Risen Today, and hide some Easter eggs. He lives to make a difference in the way we live 365 days of the year.
We are an easter people. The size of our Easter celebration doesn’t mean much if we go home at the end of the day and nothing changes. It would be like having a beautiful wedding day and then the bride and the groom go and live in separate homes. What would be the point of that? Easter is not about a great worship, but about a great Savior who is risen from the dead. We can sing Jesus Christ is Risen Today until we are blue in the face, but if we don’t live like it, we are better off not wasting our breath.
Easter Sunday may be over, but he is still risen from the dead. We will gather as a church again next Sunday. And we will celebrate the resurrection once again. And we will continue to do so for 52 weeks of the year. So I will say Happy Easter everyone.
He is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!
