Happy Resurrection Sunday

Good Evening All and Happy Resurrection Sunday,



I named this blog tosaveawretch because of the season in which I started it. From Palm Sunday to Good Friday to Resurrection Sunday (aka Easter) this is a time to reflect on the most awesome display of love shown to mankind.

There's a wonderful song called Amazing Grace that many people have heard and even sung but perhaps have not comprehended its magnitude. The first few lines say "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I'm found was blind but now I see". Another Gospel song called Oh What Love says "Jesus died on Calvary to save a wretch like you and me that's love they hung Him high and stretched him wide he hung His head for me He died that's love". The common element in these songs is mankind's wretchedness and God's Love in spite of that wretchedness. That is the reason we observe this Holy Day (holiday) that is the reason we rejoice. We rejoice because He died for our sins (yours and mine) we rejoice because He got up and He got up with All Power in His Hands. We rejoice because the debt that Jesus paid on the cross was our debt, our sins, we rejoice because He took our place.

This day especially requires self inventory and self examination. As I took inventory and examined myself I realized that I fell short, I was confronted with the magnitude of my sins against God and the reality of who I was in relation to Him, to His word and to His commandments and statutes. I looked at God's commandments and realized that I had broken nearly all of them, I had lied, cheated, stolen and murdered in my heart, I had taken the Lord's name in vain and I had committed adultery in my heart as well. Therefore my only option awas to truly repent, to turn away from my sins and ask for forgiveness and believe that Jesus Christ is who he says He is and that he paid the price on the cross for me personally. Please see click on link for scripture references http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:21-22;27-28;&version=9; and http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020:12-17;&version=9;


Also my friends check out this website http://wayofthemaster.com/goodperson.shtml and take the Good Person Test and see how you measure up. It may surprise you that you will fail the test, for we all fail the teast because the bible says in Romans 3:23 that ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday is not about eggs and bunny rabbits and jelly beans. It is about the risen Savior Jesus Christ and the love, the love, the ultimate sacrifice of laying down ones life for another, it's about Christ being a substitute for fallen mankind, it's about Him raising up on the 3rd day and telling death to bow down and behave, it's about salvation from sin, death and hell. It's about LOVE.





Love,

Dee