God Sees You This Easter Season.

March 27, 2024

I’ve mentioned the descriptions Word produces when I import an image into a document in posts before. If a description doesn’t automatically come up, you can click on the image and select View Alt Text. Sometimes the computer is spot on and sometimes not so much.

I imported the image, waited a couple of seconds, and sat here amazed when the caption read, “A person walking on a street at night.”

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Out of all the darkness, lit only by the few muted streetlights and car lights, the program accurately assessed the subject of my photo. It didn’t highlight the cars, the tree in the foreground, a signpost, or the “Walk/Don’t Walk” signal. No, it went to the center of the image and selected the subject, a person walking on a street at night.

I’m going to cut to the chase this week. Sunday is Easter Sunday. I also realize some Christians do not like calling it Easter Sunday. A preferred name may be Resurrection Sunday, or Resurrection Day. I understand that and don’t strongly feel one way or the other. Except that, I do believe the focus of Easter Sunday, or Resurrection Sunday, should be on the resurrection of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

Having said that, let’s get back to the photo. There are many people today who feel like their lives are like that person walking in the dark. For whatever reason—walking in darkness due to illness, finances, job loss, or being in a job they hate, family situations—it could be anything, life is dark. Even if life is dark because they have chosen up until now to live apart from Jesus, outside His light, there is hope.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus, shared his experience of Jesus seeing him in the darkness of life. His account of meeting a resurrected savior shows us that Jesus sees us, even when we aren’t looking for Him. His whole reason for dying, being buried, and being raised up was so that you and I could experience His saving grace for our lives.

“For I handed down to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-8, NASB)

Paul wasn’t there to see Jesus within the few weeks after His resurrection. He considered himself to be “one untimely born.” Most believe it was four to eight years after the resurrection that Jesus appeared to Paul. It doesn’t matter the exact timing, the point is, Jesus saw Paul’s condition years after the resurrection. He sees us and our condition now.

I pray you experience the love of Christ during this most special season by acknowledging His death, burial, and resurrection on Easter Sunday.