During this season we await the joy of Resurrection. It’s a great celebration! We have breakfast at church, choirs sing well-rehearsed music, congregations dress in their Resurrection Sunday best and slip candy to the children.

But before that day, we reflect on Jesus’ sacrifice. If you’re like me, you think about your own sins and regret every one of them (at least I hope you do). Or maybe you think about sins in your family. Or your church. Or your state or nation. Or even the world.

In thinking about Jesus dying for everyone’s sins, maybe you go so far as to consider historical events and the people involved. Or people you know of, but do not actually know. Or or or.

Scripture tells us Jesus bore the sins of the world. That’s a lot of sin and over an unfathomable amount of time. As we learn more about the spreading tentacles of satanism and the far too many people who align with it, and as we awaken to terrible things of which we have previously been unaware, we are conscious more than ever of the heaviness of that sin and of the horrifically black evil filling the world over both now and throughout history.

And suddenly we realize the weight of the cross Jesus carried was minor compared to the sin He took on Himself; sin so enormous the thought of it must drive us to our knees.

So before the eggbake or egg hunt or deviled eggs, let’s step back for a long pause. Jesus took on all the forces of evil and won. HE!!! WON!!! He went to battle with blood dripping down his back and face and hands and feet. He stormed the gates of hell. He bore it all and He paid it all.

Then, oh yes, then He defeated death, itself! Hallelujah!

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