Alleluia! Christ is risen.
The cross is empty. The tomb is empty. The self-serving cult of human greed, judgment, and death has been emptied of its perceived power. Jesus has risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and to those in the tombs granting life!
Easter is about life, and not just life after physical death, Easter is the life that tramples down all forms of death in this world. Easter is God’s victory over the human cult of crucifixion and death, a cult that worships cruelty, judgment, greed, nationality, hate, indifference, and all sinful desires that draw human hearts from the love of God–a love that shows no partiality.
Easter is the promise that God’s impartial and transforming love is life itself. And that life is for the whole world. It is not earned, merited, or offered quid pro quo–for those are the ways of death and the tomb. Easter life is given to all freely, joyfully, and fully.
May that life be our hope in this world, and may it be our calling. With the risen Lord, may we, being transformed by Easter life, walk away from the empty tomb to take the hand of all who live under the shadow of death in the world so that everyone might know the transforming power of Easter life.
The Lord is Risen indeed. Alleluia.
Happy Easter!
