GOD IS ALIVE!

Ahh, Happy Easter :)
I love Easter; one of the times I'm able to see all of my family (which seems like every year there's more and more), homemade cooking and assurance of salvation. Man, today is hard to wrap my head around. At church, Joey always gives us the illustration that if you think you're big, go to the cemetery and raise someone from the dead. You can't. But God did! That's insane! I don't think we allow ourselves to dwell on the fact that Jesus Christ took on human form, He did not count equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking on the very form of a servant, being obedient to death, even death on a cross. I think we lose sight of the criteria it takes to be Christ. Sin-less, yet bearing all of our sin so that we might be the same. How reassuring, how holy. The Philippians passage I alluded to above goes on to say (2:8-11) Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above ever name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth AND under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
Christ is risen! I cannot even fathom what it must have been like to be one of the Mary's to go to the tomb and for the corpse of Jesus to be gone. What?!
Last week at the silent retreat I prepared myself for Easter and read the end of each of the gospels about the crucifixion and resurrection. Mark 15:38 says "and the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom." Meaning-because of Christ's great love-there is no middle man. I don't need any lifeline to connect me to God or pass the word to Him of whatever I need to tell Him. He is mine and I am His.
My faith is based on this. I am to be the servant of Jesus Christ because of His great love which saved me. So count your blessings today and remember- to God be the glory.