The First Day

I have to admit, I was disappointed with Easter this year. Well, not with Easter, but with the way it was celebrated. The Easter service I attended was more of a Good Friday service, stressing the need for the cross and the penalty that was paid. But that was Friday, Sunday is about resurrection. Victory, Triumph, Kingdom. The resurrection was the single most important event in human history. Yet, Many christians fail to grasp the centrality of this event. With a view to doing my part towards reversing this trend, I submit one of favorite Easter quotes:

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at day-break to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.”

-G.K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man