Easter Sunday

I have a question for you… which of the following happens every Sunday?

• You watch a football game on TV.

• You sleep a little later than on a school day.

• You celebrate Easter.

• You hunt for Easter eggs.

Well, you know as well as I know football season doesn’t include every Sunday of the year. So that can’t be the right answer. You may or may not get to sleep later. (If you do, I hope you get up early enough to go to church.) So that must not be the right answer either. If you hunt for Easter eggs that might be true in April this year, but certainly you do that every Sunday of the year. That leaves “celebrate Easter” as the one right answer.

Because the first Easter was on a Sunday, according to the Bible, God’s people continued to set Sunday aside for gathering to hear god’s Word and receive His gifts. So it is true that Sundays continue as a way to celebrate each of our Sundays as “a little Easter.”

That means we still set aside a day and a time each week to hear God’s Word in

church. We still worship God and our Lord Jesus Christ in song and prayer. We still offer Him praise for His “mighty deeds” and “excellent greatness.” Yes, the words in parenthesis remind of Psalm 150:

Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!

Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!

Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

Just as on that first Easter many years ago, when people doubted that Jesus was risen and alive, we sometimes doubt God’s promises too. Just like the people long ago, we might sleep in, thinking that nothing earthshaking could happen within a sealed tomb.

Yes, and we’re tempted to stay at home to watch the excitement of a football game rather than rejoice in the greatest victory ever won by worshiping in church. But we would be wrong; all those things really did happen –His dying, His resurrection, and His living again really did happen!

Jesus contradicted the obvious! And that’s one more reason why we celebrate Easter each year and celebrate a “little Easter” each and every Sunday of the year.

A Prayer to Pray:

Dear Jesus, thank you for making each Sunday an Easter for me.

Thank you for Your dying and rising and being my Savior.

AMEN