Easter and Eastertide...

Easter is about Resurrection!
Easter has become a popular time for holidays. Precious family time, or time of rest, is enjoyed. Families enjoy egg hunts, picnics and get-togethers.

But what about the real meaning of Easter? Do we give it enough thought and time?
The Bible tells us the real meaning of Easter is the resurrection of Christ. That is why for 6 Sundays after the first Easter Sunday we continue to celebrate this most important of all Christian truths, that Jesus rose from the dead - and we call it Eastertide.

Indeed, all Christian worship testifies to the resurrection of Christ. The fact that Christians worship on Sunday, the first day of the week, instead of on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, testifies that the resurrection is the fundamental truth of the whole of Christianity.
Jesus rose on the first day of the week. And we worship on the first day of every week, to say to the world that we serve a risen Saviour. Sunday worship speaks on every Sunday of the importance of the resurrection to every Christian and all of humanity.

We should ask - what if Easter had never happened? The depressing reality of what life would be like had Christ not risen from the dead, is that life would be despair. Only in the resurrection of Christ can we be filled with hope for the future and for eternity. Without his resurrection, life would be hopeless and our faith and prayers pointless and in vain.

But Jesus is alive. He did conquer and we are redeemed!
Let’s continue to celebrate Eastertide with joy, vigour, commitment, faithfulness and much love.