A typo tells the truth …

A truth came out of a typo I almost sent to a friend on Twitter.

He asked if I had big plans for the weekend considering Sunday is Easter. My response was not really, I was looking forward to celebrating Easter at church and having dinner with family. He responded he was going to do the same and “… looking forward to really reacting to the significance of it.”

I meant to respond that I love the significance of Easter, but instead I typed, “I LIVE the significance of it …”

That was a typo, but one which points to a great truth: the great significance of Easter is to be lived!

The entire purpose of an empty tomb in Jerusalem is so that we may live! If Easter is little more than hunting for eggs, dressing up for church, and eating too much at dinner with the family, the entire purpose is missed.

From before God created the heavens and the earth, He formulated a plan of redemption for His human creation that comes to a dramatic conclusion with an empty tomb … Christ’s victory over sin and death on our behalf so that we may be free from condemnation and have life through Christ.

If that isn’t lived out in our lives we miss the entire purpose of God’s work throughout history.

I love the significance of Easter because the resurrection of Christ is the pivotal event that provides for our means of being set free from the slavery of sin by being buried with Christ, and with Him rising to a whole new life!

That has to be lived … or we remain dead!

Is Easter just another holiday, something you celebrate once a year? Or is it something the results of which you live out every day?

Scotty