They can be good moments. Some have great weight. Things like kindergarten graduation, or when you drive for your first time. That moment when, with ring in hand, looking up into her eyes, she says yes. That moment when the nurse says “It’s a boy!” or It’s a girl!”. When you sign the 45-page document that and they hand you the keys to your first house. Other moments can have less weight, like a new flavor, seeing the ocean for the first time. Sometimes it can even be great events that happen around you like the moment when man first stepped out onto the surface of the moon.

^th. The list is virtually unlimited as to what can happen to us that forever changes us.

 If they are good things you lean back and remember them fondly. They buoy you up in times of despair. You can close your eyes, and go there in your mind. If they are negative then you have to work through them, heal, and grow scars. Some of the negative things never really leave us, we just get along as best we can after we experience them.

 The events that surrounded the death and resurrection of Jesus must have been of the sort that changed everything. It must have been so incredibly shocking to see Jesus on a cross, to see him die. Shock and confusion, denial, anger, all eventually led to resignation, acceptance, and a fear that the disciples might be next. Only to be blasted with the most joyous and hopeful event in the history of the cosmos. The depth of those moments on the people who were there is unimaginable.

 When Mary discovered the tomb was empty, when John beating Peter to confirm it, and when Jesus Himself showed up, their lives were forever change. It changed everything. It is time for us to focus our eyes on Jesus. To consider and remember the resurrection.

 It changes everything. 

See you at church.

Pastor Chris