This is the first installment of a four part series of my
personal lead up to Easter Sunday 2014. It is also part of a wider blogger challenge.
I do hope that all these Lent/Easter reflections are
encouraging for you, as well as me.
As I
sit and reflect upon this week…then wider this year…and wider again my life…and
yet still wider again eternal life with Jesus, and also this current season of
lent leading us towards Easter, I am encouraged thinking of the resurrection
that came for Jesus after His trial.
This week has been challenging for me, it has had the trial
of beginning a new job. You
probably know how challenging a new job can be…learning new procedures…meeting
new people…trying to stop yawning…
Expand that to the previous month which has also been an emotionally
trying period. A season of trying to
break an unhealthy cycle with someone, and also bearing the brunt of that
decision…
Expand that to the year or two which has seen so many
unpredicted and unwanted changes that one could think, hang on where is the encouragement
in this…
Yet
amongst all of this there has been God, my constant and faithful one.
Even though times can be trying, at Easter we are forced to
remember…Jesus…who stood up against all the powers of sin and death and rose
again…
His lead up to His resurrection was tough, yes so tough He
died.
Even though this week has been challenging, I also have
known that this challenge will birth a new season for me…
No, my experience is not the same as what Jesus went
through, for He is the Messiah of the whole world…and has risen to eternal
glory.
But yet
Easter does help me in my struggles. For
I know that Jesus understands my struggles, as He is accustomed to them and
endured. He was and is faithful and is
my personal saviour.
I am
encouraged when I see glimmers of God’s Kingdom here on Earth, glimmers of my
new season approaching, and also when I think of our promised peaceful eternity, with no more sin or heartbreak, that is coming.
In love
and encouragement, Melanie :)
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