What Do You Do the Day after Resurrection Sunday?

What do you do the day after yesterday when we celebrated the Resurrection all over the world. Some choose to call it Resurrection Sunday and others Easter.

The Significance of Resurrection Sunday/Easter

Whichever name for yesterday you choose, on this day, Christians celebrate the greatest day in human history – death is defeated, the payment of Jesus on the cross accepted, and Jesus lives. Without the resurrection, Christians would be as all other religions in the world. Jesus alone not only claimed that He would rise again, but did. He alone met with hundreds, engaged people after the resurrection, and demonstrated how all the Scriptures pointed to the reality of His life, death, and ultimate resurrection. Thousands and thousands began following Him in the months after His resurrection. There is no other person in history, nor any other religion, that boasts such great things.

To one degree or another, Christians celebrate the resurrection every Sunday when we meet on the first day of the week. However, Resurrection Sunday/Easter focuses all our attention on this special day at one time. It’s a glorious celebration indeed. We realize that all our hope comes down to this one event. You hear people reflect on the words from the Scriptures, “He is risen!” “He is risen, indeed!”

All our hope comes down to the reality of the resurrection. As the songwriter put it, “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow…”

How Does Yesterday’s Celebration Impact Your Today?

What do we do today? How does our celebration yesterday impact us right now? in this hour? throughout our day?

Let me suggest four specific responses for your day ahead…

• Remember, because Jesus lives, you have hope for the eternity. His life guarantees your future life.
• Your sins were paid for by Jesus through His death and resurrection. You are not under condemnation today; Jesus paid it all. The resurrection guarantees you receive all the benefits afforded to a Christian through the Gospel – focus on this reality.
• The power of the resurrection resides in you as well to do those things which honor God, exalt Christ, and are consistent with the Word of God. You can live a God-honoring life today because of the Holy Spirit’s power which works in you.
• Jesus goes with you today. He promises as He returned to Heaven that spiritually He would be with us always. You are not alone today. As you go through your day, remind yourself of this and watch it change your outlook.

With these things in mind, go forth today choosing to love God supremely and love your neighbors sincerely. The resurrection should not simply change your future and provide you future hope, it should change the way you live today.