The Most Important Day

Happy Easter!

Photo by Євгенія Височина on Unsplash

This is the most important day of the year, and yet it isn’t the most celebrated one.

Christmas, I’m afraid, has more commercial potential.

Gift exchanging, especially when children are involved, is a great incentive for businesses to market, it seems now a-days, half a year in advance.

Easter is more limited on the secular side. Pastel colors, eggs and bunnies don’t put much fire in the belly.

And because the underlying theme of conquering death is truly out of this world, and because the day is always and forever will be I’m guessing, on a weekend, the push to call Monday or Friday Federal holidays is not going to happen — especially now that Christianity seems to have become an acceptable target of mockery by neo-marxist elites, illiterates, and many college- indoctrinated young people trying to understand the world through the wrong set of spectacles.

And yet, for all who wish to understand the magnificent goodness of God in the midst of pain, suffering, and death it is the most important, most life-changing day on the calendar.

In fact, if you truly understand the power displayed once long ago when a tomb became unnecessary because its occupant got up and walked out, not because he survived torture, but because he was resurrected back to life never to die again — and more to the personal point, because his action set into motion a salvation accessible to anyone, no matter the mess they had made of life to that point and beyond. This day in particular is the announcement to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear that they have become the beneficiaries of an inheritance greater than any child of any king or potentate to have ever lived.

Easter, without a doubt, is the most magnificent day of the year.