A Call to Easter People
(NIV) Phil 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death —
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus there’s just something about that name. Written by Bill and Gloria Gaither in 1970, this song captures the essence of the power behind the name of Jesus. Certainly, the name “Jesus” was popular during the time of our Lord, but it was only when the name was given to the Son of God that it was able to change people’s lives.
Yesterday, we celebrated Easter and today we are called to live like Easter people. What St. Augustine meant by the term “Easter people,” was simply this: their faith in Jesus Crucified and Risen must be lived by imitating Him in daily life by the way they spoke, thought and acted. So today it is our responsibility, and indeed our joy, to live in the power of the resurrection as Easter people.
May we awaken from our slumber to a new day of having true joy in the Lord and the power of the Resurrection. .
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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