Words of Grace

“The message of Easter cannot be written in the past tense,” writes Frank D. Getty. “It is a message for today and the days to come. It is God’s message which must re-echo through your lives.” 

Life consists of the past, the present, and the future. The Lord Jesus, according to the Scriptures, is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever”(Hebrews 13:8). 

The apostle John described how he saw the glorious appearance of Jesus in Revelation 1:13-16. Falling at his feet, he heard him say, “I am he that lives and I was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever more.” (V. 18)

It is recorded in history that after the death of Charlemagne (Charles the Great), his admirers set up his corpse in the grave. They put a crown on his head and a sceptre in his hand. 

What a mockery!

Charlemagne brow is long gone, though still remembered. Jesus, the King of Kings, is alive forever and ever. His grave is empty. His body is no longer there. 

Martha Snell Nicholson knew what it was to suffer with pain. In spite of this, she continued to bless many with the poems she wrote. In a poem entitled “Easter,” she ended with the resurrected Jesus- 

“Who speaks within my sickroom, where I live, a prisoner of pain, And tells me, though this body die, This very flesh shall live again! Because He rose, I too shall rise, Shall rise and walk and dance and sing; And there shall be no grief, no pain, Nor any tears, remembering!”