Easter, 2009

I have fallen in love with a new song and for once it really is a new one. Usually I finally hear one and like it but this one isn't even out yet. I found it from a blog I follow belonging to another mom who lost a child whose husband happens to be a recording artist. So I really am in on the ground floor for once.

Anyway...the song is called Unredeemed. It is about all the troubles that besiege us as humans on this planet - broken lives, relationships, hurtful words, etc and how none of these will be left unredeemed. Don't you love that thought?

During this Easter week we need to know Jesus as Redeemer. More than redeeming us from death unto life, He will redeem all the consequences of sin upon our world. Everything. The curse will be vanquished. The earth and man will finally be set right. It is finished! The pronouncement has been made - the reality is sure. We await the execution.

That's what we really celebrate at Easter. Redemption. It means to be bought back. We were bought back - from the garden of Eden's fall and its consequences to a perfect state - with the blood of Christ. He paid and paved the way for us to be declared righteous, holy and spotless before a perfect God. What law could not do, the blood of Christ accomplished. That's why the cross is so beautiful to us. That place of intense suffering and death is our ticket home.

He died for YOU! That's how much He loves you. We all need to get hold of that truth. Because once we really believe that about ME, we will live differently. We will live confidently. We will live gratefully. We will live expectantly. And that is all He wants - a life lived abundantly. Believe.

Thank you Jesus!