After all the celebration and full houses of worship on the annual Easter Sunday in the modern era, there seems to be a letdown, a return to the norm, a receding of the wave of attendance on the high watermark day of the Christian faith.
The weeks leading up to Easter are like a huge wave rolling onto shore, with great power and force. And when Easter Sunday hits, it's like the wave waters bursting onto the beach and climbing ever higher on the sand, creating a new high water line.
However, each successive week after that big wave of Easter, the waves of weekly worship stop short of that new high water mark. The sand not reached by the waters in the successive weeks soon dries out and is not moved and churned and moistened again for a long while. The grains of sand closest to the water's edge are the grains that are tossed and carried and salted and refined by the force and power of every wave that hits the shore.
It causes one to wonder...what kind of sand am I?
After Jesus Christ's resurrection...after the first ever Easter celebration, what do you suppose happened next? Three events are recorded for us in Scripture:
1. Jesus commissioned His followers (Matt. 28:16-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:44-49; John 20:21; Acts 1:8)
2. Jesus challenged His followers (John 20:24 - 21:25)
3. Jesus counseled His followers (Acts 1:3-5)
So, this Sunday (the Sunday after Easter), my prayer is that the wave rolls further up the beach than last week. My prayer is that the Word of God will commission you, challenge you and counsel you to a deeper faith in the One who came, who died, who was buried, and who was raised!
See you Sunday!
Pastor Randy
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