BEDA - Day Eight

“For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”. – John 3:16

I love the resurrection story; it is full of excitement, suspicion, scepticism, and joy. When we left off on Good Friday everything seem very bleak, and everyone that followed Jesus was downtrodden. Even though Jesus had took his disciples what was going to happen I can image that they still would have felt like they had just lost someone incredibly important to them. It wasn’t until the third day that things got really interesting

As per the custom of the day the women who knew Jesus when to the tomb with spices that they used to anoint the body. However, when they got there the stone that covered the entrance of the tomb was rolled away. The women went in and found that Jesus’ body was missing, later Jesus met them on the road and they knew that He had risen. The women rushed off to tell the disciples and some believed right away and some doubted. Jesus then appeared to the disciples and they touch His hands and feet where the nails had pierced Him and they knew that Christ, in fact, had risen.

I think that this story is so cool. It is interesting that when the tomb is found to be empty no one really knows what happened, but they are hoping that what Jesus had told them had came true. I love that Jesus appears to His followers and He allows the opportunity to have a little scepticism before he convinces them that it is true. That is kind of how I think about Christianity, at first you might be a wary of it, but once you hear the stories you know in your heart that it must be true.

 I love that God doesn’t expect anyone to be perfect, even after you become a Christian. Yes, there are rules for how you should be living your life as Christian, but mostly they are rules that, if you follow them, make you a better person Christian or not. God loves you no matter what, you can slip up and make a mistake, but all you have to do is ask God to forgive you for it, and God will always forgive you. In John chapter 3 after verse 16 it continues to say:

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in Him is condemned already because he has not believed in name of God’s one and only Son”. John 3: 17-18

The really great thing is that it is never too late to start believing in God. God doesn’t have a time limit, you don’t have to become a Christian before you are a certain age or anything, He loves everyone and wants everyone to believe in Him. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer someone to really understand and accept God.

This is what I believe, and people can try to convince me otherwise, but no matter what I will always believe it. I know that I am a better person for what I believe, and it also strengths me and gives me the will to get through the really hard stuff in life.