Easter Every Day 

 

I’ve been thinking about Jesus’ death and resurrection ~ those powerful moments that split history.

And how, because of those moments, we get to experience Easter every day. Each morning, we wake to resurrection power: our new life, redeemed by Christ.

The greatest moment in my life is when I made, what Oswald Chambers calls, a “complete and effective decision about sin.” It happened when I knelt at a dark-stained pine bench in a little Arkansas church.

Pastor Mike knelt on the other side and leaned over to talk to me. The piano clanged, “Just as I Am,” and drowned out most of his words. I couldn’t speak but I cried and nodded. Yes, I believe Jesus died for my sin. Yes, I want Him to be Lord of my life.

That’s when Christ’s resurrection power split my story. And I stepped from death to life.

I didn’t completely understand what happened, but I felt lighter, at peace. That first taste of freedom made me determined to die to everything that shackled me. I was sick of sinful choices and soul-killing shame. I was so done with letting them harass my mind and dictate my life.

There was still a lot to learn, but I’d made a decision that Chambers calls “co-crucifixion.”

In Romans 6:5-7 Paul urges us, ^“Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.”

It’s nailed to the cross. And it no longer has power over us.

I walked out of that little church to a brighter day. Because Jesus removed my guilt, gave me hope, and literally lifted my head. I was forgiven and free. My past sin was nailed dead, and my daily struggle—he’d patiently teach me to strip away, piece by piece.

Chambers says when we decide to kill sin in us, it’s the greatest moment of our lives. We don’t simply try to restrain it, suppress it, or counteract it, we crucify it. We stop playing around with it and nail it for good.

Has Jesus’ death and resurrection split your story?

What if your past is simply a chapter that’s leading you to a new beginning … and a glorious ending?

As the old you dies to unhealthy thought patterns and  unholy habits—the new you becomes who you were created to be, whole and free.

 Every day really can be Easter. Resurrection power and Abundant life.

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