It's true, he or she will sin some time this week, probably today. And so will you and I. Yet we accept weekly teaching and instruction from this sinner. Do you also know that Paul, formerly known as Saul, was a pharisee who persecuted and killed or had killed, Christians? And that he was present when Stephen was stoned?
It seems that nearly every year, right before Christmas and Easter, I get e-mail or I see FB memes about how these are pagan holidays.
While it's true that they began as such, but all of our biblical heroes began as sinners. Actually they all ended as sinners too. The difference is called redemption.
On Easter and Christmas, more people are in church than on other days. There are people who are only there on those days. And at least, on those times, they hear the message of redemption.
So if God can redeem the sinner who is your pastor, and you can follow his or her teachings. And God can redeem the sinner who was Paul, and use him to write a large portion of the New Testament, which you as Christians probably study. And God can redeem you and I, what makes you believe that God cannot redeem a day to His purpose too?
So I will continue to celebrate Easter. Not for some forgotten Pagan ritual, but I will enjoy the colored eggs, jelly beans (black ones), chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps. But most of all, I will JOYFULLY celebrate an empty tomb. God has redeemed the day, celebrate His redemption.
