Each day we live has decisions for us. What will I wear? What are we going to eat? Where are we going for Easter? Who should I invite? Should I have surgery or not? WHOA! That is pretty big! Can I leap from an airplane on my seventy-eighth birthday? What about a trip around the world in a small sailboat? Could I swim from Rockport to San Jose Island?
Some of those are really big decisions! They are great risk takers. They could be life changers and even life enders! They call for some serious thought and planning and prayer.
Jesus was a risk taker. Since He had taken on human form and characteristics, while still God the Son, he risked losing it all by allowing Himself to die. He had never died before! He had always lived. Now, he was going to die. What IF this plan of sacrifice for sin didn't work? What if God could not bring His own Son back to life? After all, it had never been done before!
He took the risk, with complete trust in His Father........and it all worked! It happened! He was able to win the battle over death, hell, and the grave. You can be sure that Satan tried all the tricks he knew to cause it not to work.....but it did.
Without His victory, through the Father, on Easter, our situation would be hopeless and we could only be pitied for being so gullible.
Every day has it's decision-making. Some are menial and others are huge. The biggest of all is a one-time one: To invest our lives in belief and trust and followship of the Risen Christ. If you haven't taken that route I encourage you to HOOK UP! STAND IN THE DOOR! JUMP! GERONIMO!!!
