Easter to me until more recently was kinda that holiday where you went to find easter eggs, and enjoyed the spring. Now-a-days I seem to find myself really thinking about who God is and what Jesus did for me during this season. Every time I blow it, and totally give into my desires I realize more and more that the my core is sinful. The more I fight against my temptations and fail the more I realize that this atoning sacrifice really was indispensable. So Easter has become probably the most poignant holiday for me.
A man who bore all sin for the past, present and future all at once so that we could be free from sin and death. No greater love could there have been.
Easter to me signifies that there is a tommorrow. I know it sounds like a very clique thing to say, but nothing signified that more than my day on Monday right after Easter. I came to work with a glow, beaming from the Easter service, with confidence that nothing could bring me down. But it didn't turn out that way. Everything that could have went wrong DID go wrong and even worse. The whole day I was walking on a tight rope (egg shells, basically). But the only thing saving me was knowing that there is a tommorrow. I had to remind myself that we go through all these trials and we have to remember there's a hope, a tommorro w and a future that is uninscribed with any precursors of the past. So I probably can't get a day as worse than on that Monday, but thank God that it was right after Easter.
We are a small group based in San Mateo out of the GRX church in San Francisco. We hope that this group will become what our name stands for, which is the 13th chapter of the book of 1 Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13 i.e. 113). It is a verse about what love is, and how love grows and matures, and how even though we are gifted with many things, if our hearts do not know love then they are but tokens and trinkets. This is a place were we can find community, study the Bible together, fellowship over food, and share in one another's lives. Come and check us out if you haven't yet, or if you're looking for community.
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Easter to me until more recently was kinda that holiday where you went to find easter eggs, and enjoyed the spring. Now-a-days I seem to find myself really thinking about who God is and what Jesus did for me during this season. Every time I blow it, and totally give into my desires I realize more and more that the my core is sinful. The more I fight against my temptations and fail the more I realize that this atoning sacrifice really was indispensable. So Easter has become probably the most poignant holiday for me.
A man who bore all sin for the past, present and future all at once so that we could be free from sin and death. No greater love could there have been.
Easter to me signifies that there is a tommorrow. I know it sounds like a very clique thing to say, but nothing signified that more than my day on Monday right after Easter. I came to work with a glow, beaming from the Easter service, with confidence that nothing could bring me down. But it didn't turn out that way. Everything that could have went wrong DID go wrong and even worse. The whole day I was walking on a tight rope (egg shells, basically). But the only thing saving me was knowing that there is a tommorrow. I had to remind myself that we go through all these trials and we have to remember there's a hope, a tommorro w and a future that is uninscribed with any precursors of the past. So I probably can't get a day as worse than on that Monday, but thank God that it was right after Easter.
Alex Lin (the new guy)
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