With Easter, Resurrection Sunday, (whatever you want to call
it for whatever reason), coming up, as every year, there is much debate on what
day Jesus died. Seems like all the enemy
has to do for some is sit back and watch while he gets us to focus on the less
weighty things of the day. The things
that ultimately do not matter. Good
Friday not really being Good Friday, Sunday not being the Sabbath or the first
day of week, Jesus dying on a Wednesday, and how it is that Friday to Sunday is
three days. Debates and questions of all
kinds and everybody has an opinion.
Not going to say a lot about this, because like I said
ultimately it doesn’t matter and I’m not going to waste my time arguing or
debating over things of little importance.
Not trying to be evasive, not trying to avoid arguments, not trying to
step on anybody’s toes or offend anyone, just desiring to state the Truth.
Was talking to my hubby and he pointed this out, “If God
wanted us to know the exact day or date of when things occurred He would have
stated so in His Word.”
God told us what we needed to know. Too many times we try to expand and get
revelation on something that doesn’t need revelation; we just need to believe
the Word of God. Jesus went to the cross. In doing so He was spat upon, ridiculed, put
to shame, called out of His name. He was
beaten. He was bruised. He was scourged. He was nailed to the cross. There He hung, He
bled and He died. And on the third day
He was raised from dead. Why? So that we can have eternal life. So that we can be free of our sins. So that we can be reconciled to God. That is the Truth.
Now, the day Jesus went to the cross, the day He was in the
garden, the day He was born, the day He rose again; ultimately does not
matter. In continuing the conversation
with my husband today, we talked about this: if you are drowning and are in
need of someone saving you, when you look back at being saved, it does not
matter what day of the week it was. What
matters is that you were saved. That
because of what someone else did on your behalf, YOU ARE ALIVE. And that is what matters about the
Resurrection. What someone else did on
your behalf. Most importantly, someone died on your
behalf. JESUS. Jesus died on the cross and saved you. He saved me.
And He still offers that message of salvation, the Easter message, to
all who will believe. All who believe
that THAT is what He did. (The act, not
the day).
So if you want to continue to debate, to argue, and
concentrate on the significance of the day or the date, I just want you to know
there are more pressing issues. He did
it. And the only question that remains is whether or not you believe it? Ultimately, that is the only question that
needs to be answered for that is the one that determines your salvation.
Jesus Himself has said, “I AM the Resurrection and the
Life. He that believeth in Me, though He
were dead, yet shall He live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall
never die. Believe thou this?”
I choose to believe no matter what day it was.
God is real.
A servant of the Lord,
Sis. E
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