Easter Sunday

“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”

‭‭(I Corinthians‬ ‭15:55‬)

I look upon today and breathe in the reality of which most would base as fiction or myth, and ascertain that had a day like this not been, 

I would not ever be. 

If you were to ask me at 15 why I serve God or why I even believe in Him, I wouldn’t have much to say. “That’s what I grew up knowing” or “that’s just how I was raised” or “because my parents do.” All responses without any reasoning that had to do with myself personally, just my general upbringing. However, should you ask me today, I’d only have one clear, definitive way of responding to you. “I don’t deserve this.” This life I was given, the blessings I’ve received, the Grace I’m gifted with every waking moment of my life. Surely, these things weren’t given on their own and I couldn’t have possibly achieved them of my own strengths. Far too valuable to be wasted on someone, a sinner, who wouldn’t be worth the time or energy. Yet, someone saw that my worth was more than the bad that would encompass most of my life and continued to fight for me to have such opportunities. In spite of myself, He still said, “I chose death so you wouldn’t have to.” He chose me to die for because He knew it would’ve been in my best interest to live for His Glory.  Him who knew no sin, dared to die without putting up so much as fight, holding back the armies of Heaven, and with joy set before Him, held hopes that I would choose life. He hoped for me. Someone found me worth it to have hope in. And on a day like today, He still holds that same hope that I will keep my eyes lifted up at Him. No longer am I looking back at the grave and lying dead with my old life or living in my past. No more sleepless nights full of tearful eyes questioning if He loves or has ever loved me. I’m here, aren’t I? Only desiring that I live towards the future plans He set for my life; to move forward and toward a better tomorrow. To walk in the same victory He rose with to prove that death, Hell and the grave was and are NOTHING compared to Him. 

So again, if you ask me today why I serve such a big God, it’s because I was too small to live without Him. That was, is and forever will be my only reason.

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