Easter - Resilience

Probably the hardest thing to face in life is that whatever you believed, worked and followed has been completely destroyed, and failed. Feeling hopeless.

That’s where Christians were the day before the Easter. and I believe many of us are going through that right now… feeling hopeless…

But Christians are not defined by the death of Jesus on a cross but what happened after provides the complete picture of who we are.

The Resurrection.

Now that! changed everything about who Jesus was, is and will be and who we are as Christians as well.

So did persecution stopped after the Resurrection? No, it got worse.

Did believers benefitted after the Resurrection? No, most of them got persecuted and got killed.

Then how is it possible for them (us) to be where we are now and keep believing and having hope?

Because we knew this life isn’t end of all and trust in Jesus kept us moving. We can call it the resiliency of Christians. I think that’s what we need at times like this. Being resilient of our life and our faith

It’s easy to give up when things are difficult but for those who continued on will come out stronger, wiser and better equip to overcome other challenges and let the Easter reminds us to continue the walk in Jesus by having a hope in life to come.

“Success is measured by how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” - General George Patton

- Pastor Rein

As we prepare Easter Sunday

The number of infected people are growing each day, unemployment numbers are record high, pretty much all businesses are closed, people are ordered to stay home, it doesn’t look like it’s getting better anytime soon and there are so much uncertainty ahead of us.

In times like this, full of difficulties and uncertainties, we must remember God’s righteous and love for His people.

In Old Testament, people built altars or monuments to remember God’s presence among them and it helped them during the time of crisis in their nation. And right now our nation, our world is in crisis due the virus.

And what better ways to remember God’s righteous and love than Easter!

Easter actually follows Leviticus 23 and it was called ‘Feast of First Fruit’ in Old Testament. Which begins by ‘Passover’ then follows by ‘Feast of Unleavened Bread’ and then ‘Feast of First Fruit’ (Easter) happens in-between those two festivals. It’s three festivals together in 8 days and this year, Passover is on April 8 and lasts till sundown on April 16.

As we celebrate Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of First Fruit; Easter all together, let’s be Thankful for the life we have in Jesus because of His death and resurrection, Pray for those that are going through difficult times and remind them we are in this together and Share hope in Jesus Christ for this is not the end for us for He is with us!

- Pastor Rein