Friday, April 6, 2012

49 Reasons to Rejoice This Easter

There are many, many, many more reasons than these, but it was good to just think about and write down the difference in our lives Easter makes.  Every one of these is an enormous truth that is worth pondering.  Do you believe this?

"...He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." - Isaiah 53:5

Christ is freedom from fear,
Christ bears our burden,
Christ heals our hurt,
Christ handles our hardship,
Christ descended into our depravity,
Christ dissolves our darkness,
Christ forgives our failure,
Christ walks with the weak,
Christ helps the hopeless,
Christ holds the helpless,
Christ binds up the broken,
Christ carries our concerns,
Christ is the foundation for the fallen,
Christ is riches for the ruined,
Christ rewards us with rest,
Christ preserves His people,
Christ presents us faultless to the Father,
Christ ran our race,
Christ defeated our doom,
Christ won our war,
Christ controls all creation,
Christ receives the repentant
Christ rescues the ravaged,
Christ is always aware,
Christ shelters in the storm,
Christ restores the rejected,
Christ renews the rusted-out,
Christ secures our safety,
Christ obliterates our obligation,
Christ defends the desperate,
Christ patiently pardons,
Christ's love never lets go,
Christ character is changeless,
Christ is our matchless mediator,
Christ is a limitless Lion,
Christ roars at our regrets,
Christ runs after the rebel,
Christ is compassion for the condemned,
Christ is confidence for the confused,
Christ finds the forgotten,
Christ is our future forever,
Christ saves the sinking,
Christ will one day sink Satan,
Christ conquered the Cross,
Christ devoured death,
Christ is greater than the grave,
Christ is our everything,
Christ is not dead,
Christ is Risen.

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