Beyond the Grave

For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, Himself human,
1 Timothy 2:5 HCSB

We are coming up to Easter. This is especially a time when we remember Jesus and His sacrifice. The fact that Jesus have His life flies in the face of all other, man made ways to reach Him. He alone is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

The pain of rejection by His people, desertion by His friends and abuse by ungodly men was crushing. Jesus did not willingly go through this because it was a good idea. It was a bad idea if that is all it was. Yet there was more. It was the Father's idea. Only one possible sacrifice could but our freedom, the death of a sinless man, a willing sinless man.

What gives power to what Jesus did was not His death, although we are eternally grateful, but His powerful resurrection from the grave. He conquered death and the penalty for sin.

When we are crushed and feel all life has left us; when there is no hope in us, there is Jesus and His resurrection life. What does He have planned? Amen!