Monday, April 28, 2014

One extra day

A public holiday on a Monday is just bliss. That one extra day to sleep in. One extra day to pamper yourself or just to spend some time in the sun and in my case, some time doing gardening. For others spending the day with loved ones, maybe over a braai was the best way to go.

Easter Saturday must have felt like the end of the world for Jesus disciples, but then He rose again on Sunday and their shot at a few extra days turned out to be 40 days. Can you imagine the bustle? They must have wanted to draw out ever last inch of information, encouragement and leadership from Jesus before He departed from our planet and returned to heaven.

The knowledge, life and faith that Jesus imparted to His disciples turned religion as they knew it upside down, or as we prefer to say, right side up. Through His sacrifice Jesus imparted a strength of faith that would carry each one of them until their own death as a Christian Martyrs.

If you could have 40 days personally to walk with Jesus, talk to Jesus and seek your own encouragement what would you talk about? Thankfully as Christians today we do have that opportunity. With the help of the Holy Spirit we can talk to Jesus everyday but not seeing Him physically presents us with a challenging question.

Do you really believe?

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