Happy Easter!

I want to start this post in an unlikely place… a garden.  More specifically, we find ourselves in the Garden of Eden.  It is where this whole week gets its meaning and significance.  Without the events of this garden, today means very little because it is in this garden we lost our relationship with God.  It is also in this garden where God speaks to Adam and Eve and says, “I am going to send a boy.  He is going to restore this relationship you just broke.  Be on the lookout for Him.”

Divine Poetry: How poetic is it that the hardest words ever spoken (Eden) most beautiful words ever spoken (at the empty tomb) were in gardens?  The parallelism here is breathtaking to me. In a garden, we were separated from God and introduced to death.  In a garden, we are brought back into a relationship with God and introduced to life!  Angels present at both.  There is Adam, the original gardener.  And there is Jesus, posing as a gardener.  First Adam… and Last Adam (1 Cor 15:45).  The fulfillment stands for all time.

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”  1 Cor 15:55-57

“He is risen!  Praise God!”

NOTE:  Thank you for sharing the Holy Week Experience with me this week.  I hope you had as much fun as I did.  Your comments are appreciated as this is my first time to blog like this.  Have a great day!  Don’t forget to subscribe:  RSS version or EMAIL version!