People like Christmas a lot. Presents, wrapping paper, big bows, trees, carols, mistletoe, and whatnot. I get it. Lots of stuff there, and lots of commercial surface area for pop culture to latch on to, so even people who aren’t Christian celebrate Christmas.
When you get right down to it, however, Easter is a lot more important. Without Easter, Christmas doesn’t hold much importance at all. Sure, a virgin birth, goodwill toward men, but to what purpose? Without Easter we would still be in our sins. Without Easter, we’d still be stuck with an eternal death sentence.
Easter is where God’s plan all came together, where many of those Old Testament promises and prophecies were fulfilled. Where God established his Kingdom. Where God moved names in the books from death to life. Where God did what we cannot and sent his son to die our death in our place so that we can live. Without Easter, none of that happens. And that’s why it’s the most important day of the year.
Happy Easter! He is risen!
Now tell someone around you. They need to know.
If you truly want to feel the joyfulness of Easter, everyone should attend a Good Friday Service. Three hours of sorrow and prayer will deplete you physically (as it should). Then Holy Saturday as a day of loss. The following day of Easter to know that Christ came back to us never to leave us again, is more joyful than any other day in the history of mankind.
Easter is my favorite holiday of all. Easter brings the blessed hope of eternal life that we have for those who follow Jesus! Christ is risen!