Like Christmas, Easter is not only a day; it’s a season. Beginning with Easter Sunday, it will continue until the seventh Sunday after Easter, known as Whitsunday (or more popularly, Pentecost). This is traditionally a time of great rejoicing — as it should be! We need not wait until we die to experience the life of the resurrection; the resurrection has already begun! Jesus left the tomb behind, and we are raised with Him.
Is there a new beginning that you’ve been dragging your feet on, something that you need to start and haven’t quite made the time, or found the will? Whatever new life, new growth, new healing God is calling you into, there’s no time like Eastertide! So get with your wise people, and have the talk: “I think God is calling me to ________. What do you think?” Get their input, and then get about it! Be done with porn. Forgive your father. Be grateful for your wife. Discipline your children with love, not convulsions. Pay back that debt. Get godly counsel. Do the physical therapy, every day, all the way to the annoying end. Ask that wise grey-headed person to mentor you. Whatever it is, begin it!
This is not some weird little secular self-improvement plan. Don’t turn it into that. This is the present manifestation of the new life Jesus came to bring. Put your hand to the plow with a good will and a song in your heart. As with the incarnation of God, the resurrection has implications that take time to absorb. This is dense theology, people, and there’s not a chance of getting your head around it if you aren’t being obedient as you go. So get out and do; faith without works is dead, and we ain’t about that life. Once you’re in motion, contemplate. Here’s one place to start that focuses on the post-resurrection events themselves, each one meaningful and worth your attention in its own right.
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