Dear LifeSpring Family,
This past Sunday we celebrated Easter Sunday. What a joyful and hopeful Sunday – He has risen!!!
This past Sunday, Dorothy and I also had the opportunity and privilege of experiencing the Passover Seder meal at MLCF. One of the elements of the Seder meal are the three pieces of matzah bread. It was suggested by our facilitator from Chosen People Ministries that the three pieces of matzah bread represent the trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. When you look at a piece of matzah bread it is full of holes and burn marks with stripes. This reminds us of what our Lord Jesus Christ experienced at His crucifixion.
And it also reminds us of the verse from Isaiah 53:5:
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
While this past Easter Sunday reminded us that our Lord Jesus Christ has resurrected, it brought my mind to the verse in John 11:25-26, where our Lord Jesus Christ said that He is the resurrection and the life.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26
Our Lord Jesus Christ is not only resurrected but also “the resurrection and the life” today, present, and continuous. While the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that everything is in entropy and therefore decaying, Jesus in my life is making me more and more alive until I am in His presence for all eternity.
How about you? Are you allowing more and more of our Lord Jesus Christ into your life everyday?
Jerry
Shalom, shalom
John 1:16-17