By Samantha Taylor, Health & Fitness Expert
Although Easter isn’t until the end of the month, it reminds us of deeper things to think about in the midst of all the crazy things happening in this world. I think back to 28 years ago on Easter when my late husband and I made it to a church service because someone had invited us to go.
And honestly, we didn’t want to go, but because it was Easter and someone invited us, we did. What we didn’t know was that was the day God was going to change our lives as we both surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ, which led our lives on a journey following God.
When your earthly body no longer has breath and a heartbeat and your spirit leaves to go to eternity, that is not the time to wait to see what happens. Eternity is longer than we can fathom and since our eternal life is impacted by what happens on this Earth, don’t you think it’s important to investigate that while you are still here?
For me, the anniversary of Easter celebrates the day that I met God and honestly, I can’t imagine having gone through the last 28 years without knowing God. And I couldn’t imagine going through, losing the love of my life since I was 17 and not having the strength of God to support and love on me in those deep dark times of pain (that thankfully He has restored me from).
What that experience did reiterate to me was how truly real our God is. How truly real His love is for us and the comfort and the peace that He gave me in the most difficult season of my life, made me love and respect God even more.
I encourage you if you’ve not been to church in a while or maybe you have and you’ve got some neighbors you can invite, Easter is the holiday that more people will go to church when invited than any other holiday. So take a minute to think about who you could invite to go to church with you or if you’ve not gone in a while, or ever, you consider finding a good church to attend. It matters. There is some type of spiritual awakening and movement happening all over this nation right now, people seem even more open to God.
God is the most important relationship that any of us can have in this life and to try to live without Him is not something I would ever want to do. God can be so personal in our lives, so beautiful and so loving and He wants to have a relationship with us. The God of the Holy Bible is alive and that is why we celebrate Easter (Resurrection Day!).
There are scriptures that tell us that God calls us to Him, He draws us to Him….we don’t just all of the sudden find God one day. I pray that anybody reading this that feels that “draw” from God, that you respond because there’s a reason for it. He loves you and He wants to guide you through the life that He put you on this earth for. But if you don’t surrender to Him and you don’t respond to the call, then it’s difficult to know what your God given purpose is.
None of us know the number of days that we have. All of us will die even though we don’t know what day that is. So, making sure that we have a right relationship with God is more important than anything we can do in life.
For a list of powerful, inspirational movies and music that have touched my life and a video I made about how to walk in the peace of God, go to this page. One of those powerful movies is one called “The Case for Christ”. It’s a phenomenal movie and is told from the perspective of someone who was doubting this was true but as he researched it, he found so much evidence that it was that he couldn’t deny it. http://www.samanthataylor.com/powerfulresources
Happy Resurrection Day!