Celebrating EMPTY
April 21, 2019
EMPTY things do not normally give us cause to celebrate. What rejoicing or gratitude may be found in an empty gas tank, an empty wallet, empty talk, empty promises, an empty crème filled donut, or an empty ATM machine when we need cash?
It is truly difficult to find much delight in EMPTY! Yet there are two realities, at least, which we can celebrate because they are empty. The first reality is that the Cross is empty, and the second reality is that the tomb is empty. As believing Christians, we celebrate that Jesus did not stay upon the Cross, but instead, He was buried and on the third day He rose from the dead.
Because the cross is EMPTY, and because the tomb is EMPTY, we can celebrate many FULL things. The full assurance of our salvation, the full armor of God, the full assurance and understanding that the enemy of death has been defeated, the full acceptance by God, the full peace that our home in Heaven is secure, and that the FULL penalty for our sins was paid by the shed blood of Jesus Christ!
I Peter 2:24
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.