CAPA Corner: A Glorious Season

     What is your favorite season of the year?  Is it crawfish season, the spring season with its many beautiful flowers & warmer temperatures after what seemed to be an endless winter season this year, strawberry season, LSU football season, deer season, or maybe the Christmas season (which seems to start earlier & earlier each year)?  For me, I like the opening day of the Major League Baseball season, particularly whenever the St. Louis Cardinals play their first game – which was this past Monday.  I have been a Cardinals fan for many years, and I am glad that I have had much to cheer about in the past few years.  For me, life is much better during the 6-7 months while I can check to see how my Cardinals are doing.

     However, there is another season for which that I am most thankful.  Yes, it is my favorite season – by far!  This season has changed my life, eternally.  To me, this is the most glorious season of all.  This season is the Easter season – the season we are in right now.  Easter is Sunday, April 20.  Are you looking forward to it?  I certainly am!

     The glorious Easter season is all about an empty tomb just outside of Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.  The Easter season is glorious because this empty tomb proved that God was faithful to His promise.  God had promised, for over 2,000 years, to send a Savior to save His people from their sins, so they could be reconciled to Him.  God didn’t send someone at a certain time to simply declare, “I am your Savior.”  No, at just the right time, according to God’s perfect plan, God sent His One and only Son, conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary overshadowed by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus Christ, who was born in a humble manger in Bethlehem, was fully God and fully man, lived a sinless life that we could never live, willingly went to the cross in obedience to God the Father, died, was buried, and HE was placed in that tomb in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.  The empty tomb on that first Easter morning showed that Jesus, as the eternal Son of God, was victorious over sin, death, and Satan!  The empty tomb proved that Jesus was who He said He was.

     The empty tomb revealed that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead.  The many (over 500 at one appearance!) who saw the resurrected Jesus are our witnesses to the fact that Jesus conquered sin, death, and Satan.  There is no more glorious news than this for those who are truly trusting in and following Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.  Are you?  To better understand the glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ, I encourage you to attend one of our Central churches on Easter morning.  There you will see that Easter is glorious, and that the risen Lord Jesus Christ is the reason that it is!

Don Hulsey,

Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church (9526 Joor Road)