Happy Easter!
We are having a hard time right now with bad news for many dear friends. I just heard that my cousin has cancer, and there are two other dear women in our church who have it too. The prayer chain requests keep coming in, and it is easy to feel weighed down by it all. And yet!
It may be a Christmas thing, but this Easter I am reminded again and again that God is Emmanuel, God With Us! He is no stranger to suffering – His life and death proved that. He knows our hearts and still loved us enough to shun His glory, to come down to us here on earth, and to allow us to humiliate Him, scorn Him, reject Him, and finally put Him to death. When He conquered death, He broke the power of sin, He gave us all a new hope, a new birth, a new life. What a Savior!!
It is because of Jesus that I live in hope. No matter what the prayer chain says, I know that it is in God’s hands. We pray in complete confidence that He is able, that He is in charge, that there is nothing too hard for Him! Glory halleluia! I love Him. He makes it a Happy, Happy Easter!