Easter Season in the life of a Christian is one of the most awesome ones of the year. It is awesome because it is a proclamation – death is undone. Christ has Risen, Alleluia! Death without the resurrection of Christ would be the enemy.

Without Easter, death would be the end of all of us. The cruel reality is that every one of us will taste death’s bitter dregs. Our hope is not that we will eat right, exercise and live forever. That is a fool’s dream. We will eat right, exercise, take our vitamins and die anyway!

Our death is the fruit of this world which was broken by sin. We can no more stop it than we can stop the earth from circling the sun. We are too wrapped up in this world, its living and its dying. We cannot free ourselves from it.

Death is a real problem – it cuts us off from God. Dead people are not just happy ghosts – they are dead. But Christ has crushed the power of our death  by his death upon a cross.

He stood outside this broken world and ruled it as its creator, but he has also entered it that he might save it. Jesus has come because he hates death. He suffered death himself that he might defeat this foe of ours.

Good Friday we call Good, because of it, Jesus has taken our death and nailed it to a tree. He has crushed its power and now it cannot hold us because it could not hold him.

Celebrate the victory – Christ has indeed risen from the dead and death no longer has power over us!

Now, no one lies forgotten in a tomb. Christ, who cared for the little and the least, has remembered them all. They are all connected to the one who is the Life of the World.

Now, Jesus lives and reigns to all eternity, and nothing shall cut us off from that blessed kingdom, not even death. He has conquered and we are blessed!