Easter in an Eggshell
3/23/08 Insights from Prayer I love God and want to be perfect for Him. As a resident of a sin-cursed world I can’t be perfect, but I can approach it as closely as I can with what I have in this life. The death and resurrection of God-made-Man shows me that God’s love has figured out a way for me to enter heaven on my own death, even though I can’t have reached the perfection required of eternal glory. The manifestation of God that is Jesus had come to Earth, took all of Earth’s sins upon Himself, and by his crucifixion took all those sins to the grave with Him – burying forever the imperfect part of us that we can’t overcome here. His rising from the gravesite of Earthly sin assures us that because of His sacrifice, which is really God’s mercy by substitution, we can be able to enter heaven directly upon our death — this final imperfection that would otherwise disqualify us has been redeemed for us in advance. Easter is not just another chapter in the life of the Messiah – it’s the celebration of the greatest love of all, God’s love for us. It shows how much He wants us all together with Him in perfect glory and joy. To return this love in gratitude, we need to get as close to sinless perfection as we can.
