Resurrection.

"Why do you look for the living among the dead? 

He is not here, he has risen!" 

- Luke 24:5-6

We rejoice for victory is of Christ, victory over sin, over death, over the enemy.
We rejoice for death is defeated.
We rejoice as Christ's joy fills our hearts
We rejoice for we know that one day, we too, will rise again.

May we grow in the likeness of Christ, to grasps the great worth that is Jesus Himself.
May we grow in trust to confidently agree with Paul that "I count everything as loss because of the surpassing knowledge of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I count everything as rubbish, in order that I may be found in Him." Philippians 3:8

Happy resurrection Sunday! For death has no sting, hell has no victory! And one day, Christ will restore everything and we will be with Him till no end.

Hannah

Good Friday.

"Surely he took up our pain

and bore our suffering, 

yet we considered him punished by God,

stricken by him and afflicted. 

But he was pierced for or transgression, 

he was crushed for our iniquities;

the punishment that brought us peace was on him, 

and by his wounds we are healed. 

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,

each of us has turned to our own way;

and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all."

-Isaiah 53:4 - 6 

The sky was gloomy, cloudy with a sense of loss, there's something that isn't right. Something that's not right with the world.
"Jesus said, 'it is finished'. With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." John 19:30

What Jesus accomplished at the Cross was the complete fulfillment of the law, it was the wrath of God laid upon himself for the sins of many, it was the complete atonement for sins. Jesus' finished work on the Cross had accomplished the reconciliation between God and man, and because of Jesus, I can stand before God, justified, not of my own work, but based on what Christ had done. As I journey through Christ's walk to Calvary, the pain and mockery that I imagined was nothing compared to what He had endured.

How is it that God, the Creator, the Almighty one be put into a position such as the Cross? To be beaten, mocked, scorned. But His reason, to take that cruel and painful walk? Me. My sins, that I might be able to be reconciled to God the Father, that I may be able to see His great love, great mercy, wondrous and plentiful grace. His crown on earth was not made of gold or silver, but a crown of thorns he wore for me.

As Jesus walked and bore the Cross on Calvary, he showed obedience to the Father and love to his people to save them. For God is love, but God is also righteous and just, and it took Jesus on the Cross to pay my debt of sin, the debt of sin of the world.

Each time as I ponder and reflect, there is so much that I don't know, there is so much that I can be thankful and praise God for, there is so much in me that is not like Christ. There is still so much sin, anger, dirt, selfish thoughts, there is so much brokenness, but there is so much grace on that Cross as Jesus took on my sin and gave me his righteousness. The depth of love shown for me, by my Saviour,

Why is this Friday good?
Because God Himself came down to die the death you and I deserve.
Because He suffered on our behalf.
Because through His death, we can be made alive to God.
Because His was a redeeming death, so that now we are no longer bonded to sin, but we can be free from it, for Christ has won the victory over sin, and over death.
Because we know, that three days later, Christ will rise again, for death could not hold him down.
Because we have a King who died for us, but did not stay dead.

"What kind of King would hang on the Cross?"
That's my King, my Saviour who walked the road before me, so that I could have this relationship with the Father.
That's my King, the Creator of the World.
That's my King, my Lord, Jesus.

"See the King who made the sun, 

And the moon and shining star, 

Let the soldiers hold and nail Him down, 

So that He could save them"

- Jerusalem 

Hannah