Just wanted to tell everyone Happy Easter. Ben's family is here with us this weekend. We have enjoyed so much hosting them in our new house. We are up a little bit earlier to make Easter lunch. We had high hopes when we went to HEB last night. Surely not everyone else in Houston will also want to buy a ham today. Well, they did and they bought them all. So we got pork tenderloin instead. Anyways...details will follow on how the first holiday dinner at my house turned out.
Before I go into much more daily details, I must go into what Easter means to me so that everyone knows. What a precious day it is. I believe that today celebrates when Jesus rose from the dead. He was fully God and fully man and in God's love, he sent Jesus to Earth. He lived a perfect life and took our place on the cross. You see, we have all done wrong things and do not meet the holy, perfect standard of God. Our relationship with God is not right because of that and our punishment for our sins is death. Well, Jesus came and was put on the cross for us in our place to take that punishment of death. He then rose 3 days later, just as he said he would. He is so trustworthy. Because of this, he has conquered death and we can have a right relationship with our God and King. By simply believing in Him and the sacrifice He made for us, we are given the gift of salvation and when we die, we will go to Heaven for eternity. You don't have to work for it and you can never lose it once you have believed. What an amazing act of love shown to each of us.
I am so excited about today and getting to celebrate it, sing about it at church, and really just being reminded of what an amazing act of love Jesus showed each one of us. Be blessed today and if you have a question about this or you want this in your life, just ask me about it! So, please don't get too distracted by bunnies, eggs, or candy today and remember how much you've been given in Jesus Christ.
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