A belated Happy Easter…

Sorry it’s a bit late to wish you all a Happy Easter but well the Chief Apostle’s Easter message on  23^rd March this year, via transmission from Mannheim, wasn’t only meant for the moment or the once a year occasion…It was about the reassurance and encouragement we can receive from God if we want; about knowing and accepting that God is always there for us and that in difficult times we should hang in there and keep our faith, because he will show us the way and give us the answers if we are patient. Of course we have to speak to him intensely in our prayers too. If we don’t have a dialogue with him, then how can he help us?  Doubt and despair were in the forefront of the Easter Service message, where the Chief Apostle mentioned that before the Lord was crucified he suffered betrayal and denial from those he loved most. Yet he was still able to forgive them all and care for others, right up until he breathed his last on the cross.  He never put himself first. .He was the essence of God in human form but he felt and suffered the same emotions we do. It was his love for God, and his trust in him that strengthened him in the end. He put his will into the hand of the Father and that’s what we should do when we suffer. When the women went to the tomb on the third day to annoint the Lord’s body, they discovered the tomb was empty, so they became confused and afraid. Here, they were confronted by two men in shining garments who asked them “Why do you seek the living among the dead”? Luke, Chapter 24, v. 5. The Lord has indeed risen, he triumphed over death and the devil and ultimately sin. He gained us our right to have our sins forgiven and the right to be able to strive and enter into the eternal kingdom and community with God and the Son forever.  Let’s be honest now, what more could we (human beings), achieve in our lifetime that holds more rating that this?  What has the same stamp of creditability and validity. And what could we possibly give in return for this glory? We have nothing. We came into this world with nothing and we leave it with nothing, save for the spiritual treasures that we can manage to collect along the way. The Lord gave his life for us and what are we prepared to give in return? Why do we seek the living among the dead?

The message here: is that we need to rise with the Lord from the cross and those things that to say the least hold us back. The things that nail us to our own cross in the spiritual sense of the word. Things like disbelief, scepticism, despair, hatred, envy, unrest, aggravation, egotism and resentment. These things keep us down and cling to us like (p)articles at the owner’s own risk!.  We need to remember the things the Lord tells us, the important and essential things, like how to recognise what is good and what is bad for us; to know how to strengthen our already deeply rooted faith with those new and timely impulses from the Spirit and not to turn our back on God; especially then when we think we can go it alone and know better.We are prone to doubt because we are human. Faith, like love also needs to be nurtured. It’s a constant process and we haven’t got to forget this so that we can focus on those things that keep us spiritually alive! The women were reminded by the divine messengers, what the Lord said to them when he last spoke to them in Galilee. “The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. And they remembered his words”, Luke, Chapter 24, v. 7:8.   We should rise with him in Spirit and remember his words too, not just at Easter and not only in rememberance of his sacrifrice, but every time we hear his word at the living altar and learn from it. We should be thankful that we have been given this chance to free ourselves from liability and fault and be able to prepare our souls and make ourselves ready and worthy for the glory that he his preparing for us all.

A Happy belated Easter!

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