Nothing Can Defeat You

It’s been a long few weeks as winter tries to take hold for one last, final gasp around here…. The weather has been a bit dreary and the sun not out as much as it can be. Then, we see the glimmers of better days ahead.
As I was driving to the office today, I saw a tree budding in the shadows of the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan. Then, to my left, city workers planting tulips in a huge flower pot. Suddenly a rainy, dark and dreary day seemed filling with bright new feelings.
Easter is that sort of news.
Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.” John 11:25
A father and son were traveling down a country road on afternoon in the spring time when suddenly a bee flew in the window. Being deathly allergic to bee stings, the boy began to panic as the bee buzzed all around inside the car. Seeing the horror on his child’s face, the father reached out and caught the bee in his hand. Soon, he opened his hand and the bee began to buzz around once again. Again, the boy began to panic. The father reached over to his son, and opened his hand showing him the stinger still in his palm. “Relax, son,” the father said, “I took the sting, the bee can’t hurt you anymore.”
The empty tomb is God’s way of saying to us; “Peace, my child, I took the sting, death can’t hurt you anymore.”
Easter is the time to celebrate that nothing can keep us down, not even death. Nothing. Not broken dreams. Not nasty negative people. Not financial challenges. Nothing. Nada.
Because not even death defeats us.