What would be your two things that describe what Easter means to you?
Thinking back to a year ago, I was at Elevation and through a culmination of events was at a breaking point. The message was the final wedge driven into my heart to burst it open into a millllion pieces. The first part of the message focused on the verse 2 Timothy 3:5 which read "having a form of godliness but denying its power..." In that moment I realized that though I knew God that I had never accepted his power. There was a weight in my life that I had always carried that wasn't even mine. That weight was depression, anxiety, worry, self-deprecation, shame, guilt, and most of all the responsibility for all of my sin and the impossibility to perfectly perform.I collapsed. Emotionally, that is. I wept during the rest of the service and was faced with some serious changes in my life. God has asked some pretty big things of me and I have asked some big things in return. One thing I can say is that he has always provided.
Even today when I was running late to church, God blessed me with the opportunity to sit next to one of the warmest and most loving women I have ever met. God used communion to break my heart and bring me to the quick realization of the significance of what Jesus did on the cross. The rest of the day was filled with beautiful opportunities to fellowship with and get to know people while just being me.God has worked to strengthen the core of me and also my gratitude for each moment I am in. I am not perfect but rather am one of His great works in progress. I couldn't ask for anything more and I pray that this day you get a little closer to Jesus, who He is, and the hope and peace He provides.
Love you all & Happy Easter!
"if we are faithless,
he remains faithful,
for he cannot disown himself."
2 Timothy 2: 13
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