Celebrate His unselfish love this Easter
Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
As we enter spring, we're reminded that this is the most momentous occasion in human history.
After being sold into sin and death by Adam and Eve, someone stepped in eventually and decided, 'Look, I will take this fall for you!' There was no other way out of this certain faith.
Having been as equal as our reckless foreparents, Jesus saved us, having the means and taking our sins on his own shoulders to do so. Shouldn't we be forever grateful? (John 3:16)
This occasion is the single all-embracing accomplishment of Jesus' life as human - to glorify God's name and set in motion the return of a paradise that God intended for us (Isiah 55:11).
Not his birth, but his death that saves us. Maybe that's why his day of birth is obscured but the time of his death is well known. But how can human show appreciation for this undeserved ransom that saved us all? Jesus himself answers: "Keep doing this in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19).
When should we be gathered to remember this event? Well, the record will show that the date that Jesus and his apostles gathered for the occasion was the first new moon nearest to the spring equinox (when the day and night are equal).
The nearest new moon this year to the spring equinox would be March 31 and this event was started by Jesus just after sundown. Let us be there to celebrate. We owe our eternal life to such unselfish, undeserved love.
Homer Sylvester