EASTER WEEKEND! (and covid)

There is a saying given to us in God’s word that is worth deeply thinking about in our current world crisis.

It goes like this………. the “fear of death” makes us “subject to lifelong slavery”.   That is is Hebrews 2:15.  Our current situation shows how easily a “fear of death” can be used to change decades of entrenched behavior.  Perhaps the recent changes will be for good.  I do not know.  But it is obvious that it is relatively easy to influence and change the behavior of masses of people through fear, whether for good or ill.

The current world has always been full of frustration and futility.  As old King Solomon said, it is “an unhappy business” and “vanity of vanities”.  A “striving after the wind”.  “What is crooked cannot be made straight and what is lacking cannot be counted.”  Weariness.  But there is a remedy.  Only one remedy, but a glorious one.  There is more to this life than this life!

 It is Easter weekend…. a time to celebrate the remedy!  Christ Jesus has destroyed death, and has brought life and immortality to light.  He died.  He rose again.  He gives a new and different life.  An eternal life that we get to start living here on this temporary earth.

This Easter weekend, we do not need to cower in fear.  We need to live each day “under the sun” in this frustrating, futile world remembering that this world will end.  Whether it is through climate change, or nuclear holocaust, or some other means, again, I do not know.  But God’s word makes it clear that at some time He will end the current world.  A new era will begin.

 The absolute futility of our current world will be a thing of the past.  As Christians, we are instructed not to live for this world anyway.  We have an eternal and glorious future on a new earth with God as the rightful ruler.  So let’s remember this.  He is also our rightful ruler here and now.  He is still in charge and has told us that things like our current situation will happen…and worse…before He sets things right.  Our priority should be to be used by God to rescue others we love so they will enjoy a glorious future in eternity also.