The Journey to the Cross: Preparing Our Hearts for Easter
Easter is such a significant celebration of believers and it points to an important fact. Jesus the Son of God came to earth, to save mankind from sin. He died on a cross and He rose from the dead.
Jesus was God’s plan, His plan to save. Save from sin.
Save from hell. Jesus our Savior.
Sin was like a virus sent from the pit of Hell to destroy God’s creation-man.
But God loved man. He formed him and breathed life, the very breath of God into man.
Why does this matter? Great question. John 3:16, “ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
God had a purpose and that purpose was to be with man and man with God. Over and over again this intertwines through the scriptures as a message to us. God has loved us from the beginning and He provided a way for us to be near Him.
An extremely important fact is that God loved us first. He was the Savior in the Old Testament that sent His Son to be the Savior for all who would believe in Him.
Acts 4:12, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
No other religion points to a central figure that is filled with the power of God and lived as the Son of man. Jesus openly declared that He was “the way, the truth and the life.”
Emmanuel, “God with us.”
Isaiah 43:11, “I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.”
Psalm 68:20, “Our God is the God of salvation; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.”
2 Samuel 22:3, “The God of my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence.”
God’s nature, His purpose and His love was at the heart of salvation.
In the next few days we will find God has strategically planned for us to find Him, to be freed from sin, to find our Savior in His Son Jesus, and to live differently. Live free. Live with purpose.
Psalm 55:16, “As for me, I will call upon God, And the Lord shall save me.”
The same God who saved His people He loved, is the same God who sent His Son to save the people He loved..
God sent Him to be the Savior. The only Savior and the only one who could redeem man from the costly sentence of sin.
The Bible makes it clear that Jesus is truly one of a kind—in who He is and what He came to do. He wasn’t just another spiritual figure walking the earth in His time; He was God’s Son (John 3:16), and even more astonishingly, He was God in human form (1 Timothy 3:16).
I Timothy 3:16, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.”
Imagine that—fully man, experiencing the world as we do, yet fully God, carrying the fullness of divinity (Colossians 2:9). Throughout His life, Jesus declared that He was God, and His life and actions reflected the truth of that claim.
Jesus the Son of God is the central focus of Easter. His life and His death are written in history, but His resurrection changed history.
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”* – Hebrews 12:2
Today we fix our eyes on Jesus.
Join us tomorrow as we continue our journey in the scriptures, to the cross.
To God be all the Glory!
Deborah ( Mills) Booth
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