It is that time of the
year people commemorate the holy week around the world, including Good Friday
and Easter we celebrate today. Let me make this point, sometimes the greatest
events in history, either becomes an occasion to mourn or celebrate with heavy
feast and booze, as seen in many cultures and religions. The true essence of
the “why’s” are lost most of the time. By the way, people
think how does it even matter to ponder over the “why’s”, as long as they have
a reason for fun and be in high spirits. In many cases facts are muddled up
with made-up stories, and become a reason for celebration and exercising power,
and a commodity for money transaction.
Good Friday and Easter
are the events in the world calendar which overturns all so-called religious
incidents in human history, upside down. Let me categorize the whole thing into
two categories. The first category is there are innumerable heroes, gurus and
so-called gods in all religion who were born. They lived like one of us, some
married, practiced polygamy, had children and after one point, gained
prominence and followers during their days on earth. Some crowned themselves as
saints, made enormous wealth, waged wars, and their stories came to an end
after their death. As a remembrance, their followers later erected temples,
monuments and shrines to worship them. The second category is the mythologies
with imaginary stories that have been existing for years. It is there, probably
to emphasize a moral theme. But ultimately most of them end up in celebration.
Some are celebrated violently, some exuberantly just trying to fulfill the
rites and rituals. As we try to understand these histories, we notice there is
always a story of birth and then gained prominence during the course of time
and thereafter came death. With that, things came to an abrupt end. Later,
their fans and followers took it forward from there.
But none in human
history matched the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. Every single event
concerning Him was prophesized thousands of years ago, recorded in the
Bible, authenticated in world history with absolutely zero contradiction. We
read one of the fascinating events where Jesus predicted His own death and His
resurrection from the grave after three days. Jesus makes a remarkable
statement, which came true and has been recorded in the Bible like this, “No one
can take my life from me. I sacrifice voluntarily. For I have authority to lay
it down when I want to and also to take it up again..”. The story, where Jesus died on the cross of
Calvary for the sins of entire human race and rose again after three days, is
what is celebrated today as Easter.
Today, human beings are
trying to find salvation by their own means and still have no peace and
contentment. One of the famous verses in the Bible narrates the central message
of the Bible saying, “For God loved the world in
this way: He gave his one and only son, so that everyone who believes in him
will not perish but have eternal life.”. Belief in Jesus Christ transforms your life and
gives you the assurance of salvation and eternity. Let me quote this event of
Good Friday and Easter from the Bible which validates the central message and
core to Christianity, “that he was buried that he was raised on
the third day according to the scriptures appeared to Cephas then to the
twelve, then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time
most of them are still alive.”.
Jesus is alive and that
makes Easter special and therefore we have a reason to celebrate. You and I
have a hope in this life and for the life to come.
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