Every Day Easter

Well the good news is that the Reese’s peanut butter eggs are half price now. The bad news is that Easter is over.  We had a great weekend here at the church and lots of stories are emerging about all that God was doing on campus that day.   But it’s over now.  You can put the suit away, pack up the plastic grass and all those Easter eggs, and wait till next year. 

Right?

Paul would say no. Obviously the event of Easter is over, buts its effects are ongoing.  Again, not a shocker. Everyone believer knows that Jesus is the reason we have life.  But it’s amazingly easy to forget how much that fact can change our everyday lives.  How it should change our everyday lives.  Paul put it this way in Colossians 3:1-4

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then

you also will appear with him in glory.

Did you catch that?  You and I were raised with Christ.  When He came back to life, so did we!  When it comes to Easter we’re not spectators or even students of history.  We’re participants.  And because Jesus is alive today, right now so do we.  The life that you are experiencing right now is connected to Jesus.  And it’s just a foretaste of the eternal life that is growing in you and will continue to throughout eternity.

Therefore we shouldn’t focus on that just a couple days out of the year, but every day.  Since we’ve been raised with Him we should focus on Him, setting our minds and hearts on Him, and letting His life infuse our everyday tasks.

Easier said than done, I know.  But it is possible.  If fact, it’s guaranteed that you can.  And what would life be like if we had that kind of perspective and that kind of joy year round?  Now that could even be more exciting than those peanut butter eggs.