Working harder and longer? It's time for an Easter change...
Many of us are working harder and harder. Our employers expect more. We stay later at the office. It can get to the point where just keeping up with our work consumes us from the moment we get in until the moment we leave.
And it's not any easier in our personal lives: one activity follows another; the cracks filled in with laptops, cell phones, text messaging. There's no real "quiet" in our lives, no real time to think, to reflect, to listen. We know it's not good, but sometimes we simply feel trapped, like we have no choice. Everything seems like it's essential.
But wait! Easter changed everything. Christ rose from the dead. Now one ever escaped death before. He did. He did so that we could too. Death, where is thy victory?
It's time to let Easter in to everyday life. The busy traps, the anxieties, the scurrying around with no peace, not time for God. All that has to stop. It has to stop because it's a kind of death...a death of the soul.
God's grace will help you. Open your heart and let Jesus in today so that He can help you. He rose to free us from sin - and everything else that keeps us from Him. Put Him first and He'll work with you to find peace and serenity in the everyday instead of frantic, endless busy-ness.
Not that your job will get any "easier." Work will always be challenging, hard, even consuming at times. But He'll be right there with you, and eventually the joy of Easter, the triumph over death, the glory of the Resurrection will permeate your day. He'll help you rise above. You just have to let Him help you.
Easter changed everything. Let it change you.
And it's not any easier in our personal lives: one activity follows another; the cracks filled in with laptops, cell phones, text messaging. There's no real "quiet" in our lives, no real time to think, to reflect, to listen. We know it's not good, but sometimes we simply feel trapped, like we have no choice. Everything seems like it's essential.
But wait! Easter changed everything. Christ rose from the dead. Now one ever escaped death before. He did. He did so that we could too. Death, where is thy victory?
It's time to let Easter in to everyday life. The busy traps, the anxieties, the scurrying around with no peace, not time for God. All that has to stop. It has to stop because it's a kind of death...a death of the soul.
God's grace will help you. Open your heart and let Jesus in today so that He can help you. He rose to free us from sin - and everything else that keeps us from Him. Put Him first and He'll work with you to find peace and serenity in the everyday instead of frantic, endless busy-ness.
Not that your job will get any "easier." Work will always be challenging, hard, even consuming at times. But He'll be right there with you, and eventually the joy of Easter, the triumph over death, the glory of the Resurrection will permeate your day. He'll help you rise above. You just have to let Him help you.
Easter changed everything. Let it change you.
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