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| Why Easter is an important holy day!
Vincent R. Caravan 04-11-2009
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by Vincent R. Caravan
We don’t have Easter parades any more. I don’t think women still wear Easter bonnets, either. Nevertheless, from a Christian perspective, Easter still is the most glorious day of the religious calendar.
Even non-Christians can sense the happiness surrounding that day. It may be the one day they decide to attend church services. If not, at least they will join believers at restaurants where good food adds to their delightful day.
When I was a kid, I always thought Christmas was celebrated as the happiest event in church history. I even asked my mother, “How come we don’t go to church on Christmas unless it falls on a Sunday; yet that’s the Christ Child’s birth day? But we always attend church on Easter day.”
Then it was explained that Christmas indeed is a glorious day because of Christ’s birth but, after Christ died on a cross, his resurrection on Easter made that day slightly more meaningful to us.
Without the resurrection, we would have no reason to worship. There would be no reason to celebrate his death. He would not have been someone special, anymore; in fact, he would have been a fraud after the many stories in the Bible about his sinless nature and everlasting life.
If Christ had never risen on Easter Sunday, going to church Sundays would be fruitless. There would not be a God in Heaven to worship. To some, it does not matter, they won’t believe in him, anyway.
Churches used to be filled to capacity in days gone by; not only on Easter but every Sunday. Then people got “smarter” and recreational activities got more available and more fun, there was no time for church.
Conventional lifestyles—like church on Sunday and prayer meeting on Wednesday and cowboy movies on Saturday and card games and picnics—were replaced with near-pornographic movies on our home television sets, sensual magazines, gay-lesbian movement, sex education in schools, condom advertising, abortions, fatherless babies, etc. Consequentially, our morals slipped drastically.
Just as there are true believers, whose faith is unshakable, there are true non-believers whose lack of faith never could be dented. The believers put their trust in God for good health and good fortune. The unbelievers don’t need spiritual help until a situation becomes more than they can handle. So some of them look for help but haven’t learned how to ask for it.
Is it a coincidence that believers are happier than non-believers? Tomorrow would be a good day to start checking it out. |
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