Easter Sunday Surprise

      Actually the only surprise I got this Sunday was a phone call from my son.  I know Easter is a holiday, well. sort of a holiday and my son only calls on holidays but those are normally my birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I don't always get to talk with him then.  Sometime we play phone tag and recently we have just resorted to texting.   It's a real treat to actually get to talk with him.
    Even so, that isn't the best part of Easter Sunday.  Easter was established as the first Sunday after a full moon after the equinox that signals the beginning of spring.  I forgot what it's called and I just don't feel like looking it up right now.  If you want to know, you can look it up.  But because of the way the day of Easter was established the date changes every year.   But what happened 1990 years ago happened only once and it doesn't matter the date we celebrate what happened  but just that we do.  On Palm Sunday, which was last week, Jesus wrote a donkey into the city of Jerusalem signifying that he was King of the Jews and the promised Messiah.  A donkey was considered a beast for royalty while a horse was considered a beast of war and not fit for the king of peace.  It was just a few days later, on Passover, that Judas betrayed Jesus and He was arrested.  On Friday he was crucified and buried.  That day is known as Good Friday.  On Sunday, Easter Sunday, Jesus was seen in the flesh   by Mary and then by Peter and John and then the twelve. 
   There were many Old Testament scripture that relates what happened on the cross.  Read Psalms 16:10, Psalms 22 and Isaiah 53.  Those are but a few.  What happened on that day was real, my  friend, and that moment changed history for men.  many today would have you believe that being a good person will gain you entry into heaven while being a bad person condemns one to hell.  Many don't believe in hell so they either gain heaven or get nothing.  I'm sorry but it just doesn't work that way. 
    In case you say Christianity is only one religion and other religions teach different things and you just can't accept that there is only one way into heaven, I'm sorry but I have to go by what God says rather than what you think is fair.  Jesus didn't die on the cross just so you would have another alternative to getting to heaven.  His death was necessary in order to pay the promised penalty of death given to Adam and mankind at the time of the original sin.  And don't go blaming Eve because God say it is man's responsibility to guide the family.  All things are equal in a marriage except   it is the man's responsibility to see to the spiritual needs of his family. 
   I thank God for what He did 1990 years ago and accept his gift of life and promise to live my life to bring praise, honor, and glory to the name of Jesus.