After Easter, What Next?

Easter should become your lifestyle.

Happy Easter, beloved… and Happy New Year too. Forgive me for ghosting you, okay? Ejorr.

What did Jesus say about forgiving again?

For the first time, I spent Easter away from family… but that’s not even what I want to tell you about.

As I grow and mature in my walk with the Lord, Easter is beginning to mean more to me. It becomes weighty, deeply significant.

At some point last week, I just sat down and cried my eyes out… the kind of tears that pour when your heart has seen something your mind cannot fully process.

Because how do you understand this?

That the Bread of Life hungered. That Living Water thirsted. That for me to live, He died.

For my healing, He was bruised. For me to have everything… He gave everything.

That a perfect God would love a broken human like me, send His only Son to die for me… and then call me to partake in the resurrection.

That the most gory sight of a man would become the most accurate description of love.

So great a sacrifice that the earth trembled and the sun hid its face.

Last week I also stumbled on a prophecy that shattered me into uncountable pieces - He suffered until He no longer looked Human

But the good news?

He rose again.

He conquered the grave, and now we can cry out:

Baruch Hashem Adonai!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Yahweh Nissi, Abba Father!

Worthy is the Lamb who was slain.

Death has lost its sting;

the grave has no victory.

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But after Easter… what next?

Do we just feast, enjoy the holiday, and wait until December 25th to wear red and sing “Noel, Noel”?

It is easy and dangerous to become so familiar with the message of the gospel that we lose our understanding of it.

Christ is risen, so what happens next?

Christ rose… and so did we. There is life after resurrection. New life. And with that life comes a call… and a commission.

There is a call to believe, to anchor your faith in the perfect sacrifice that justifies, redeems, adopts, and reconciles you to God. To rest your entire life on the finished work of Christ.

A call to follow, to die daily, to lay down pride, sin, fear, and control, and to pick up your cross, choosing Him again and again.

A call to intimacy, because the veil has been torn. You are no longer distant. You have access to the Father.

A call to be transformed, not just inspired by Jesus, but becoming like Him. To be sanctified, refined, and consecrated until your life begins to look like the One who saved you.

A call to live holy, pleasing to God, by the grace that teaches and empowers. Grace that enables you to say no to sin and yes to God.

And beloved, it does not end with you.

You have been commissioned to go, to carry this Gospel (the Good News) into your world, your spaces, your conversations.

To tell someone that there is a God who sees them, who loves them, who died for them, and is still calling them home.

Beloved, our faith was is not designed to be passive… but active.

What you do after Easter shows whether you truly understand the weight of the sacrifice.

So what will you do?

I’ll drop my pen here…

But I pray you live in constant awe and consciousness of what the Cross has made available to you.

And oh, may life be kind to you, human.

See you next week. 🤍

All my love,

Adaeze, your sibling in Christ.

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Scripture References

Matthew 6:14–15; John 6:35; John 4:13–14; John 11:25; Isaiah 53:5; 2 Corinthians 8:9; John 3:16; Romans 6:4–5; Matthew 27:45–54; Luke 24:6–7; Exodus 17:15; Romans 8:15; Revelation 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:55–57; Hebrews 2:1; Romans 6:4; Romans 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:18; John 19:30; Luke 9:23; Hebrews 10:19–22; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Titus 2:11–12; Matthew 28:19–20; Luke 19:10; James 2:17