Easter 2026

He Is Risen

What does it mean that "He is risen"? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of things in real history. And a lot of what he said and did, and what others claimed he did, is pretty insane. And if he's just a liar or a crazy person, then it's all inconsequential. But if he was actually telling the truth, then his life is literally the lynchpin of anyone and everyone else's life. If he really did resurrect from the grave by the power of Yahweh then every single person needs to reckon with a real truth - that a King was killed and defeated death in his own death, and he said he will come again. Every single human will stand before the reigning resurrected King Jesus face to face, for judgement or forgiveness and it is inescapable.

So to me, today, Easter on April 5 2026, how will I treat my King? What is my posture towards him and good things? I know where my head is - it's at work, I know where my heart is - it's frustrated with my own sin and lack of attention to the holy seasons the Lord permits me to pass though, it's frustrated with external pressures that affect my life as I mention in 2026-04-05-notes#Stream 2. My head and heart are not fully focused on the Lord, haven't been fully focused on his suffering, on him carrying the cross up to the place of the skull, on his side being pierced, blood and water hitting the ground, his final breath, the tearing of the veil, the silence on Saturday, nor his resurrection we remember today.... I have been so consumed with myself, with work and pressure, with disappointment and mistakes that I almost feel like a foreigner to approach a meditation about Easter and to write abut it at all, even this which is just a journal entry pretty much.

But the Lord is sweet in his victory. Today is about his victory over death. It's a victory he shares with all those whom he has called. The pressures of work will fade away, the disappointment over my own sin may never leave me (and actually I hope it never will, Jesus frees me to live and love, he frees me from my sin but not from my sorrow or remorse over it). Praise the Lord for the victory he gives his people, to me.