HOW TO CELEBRATE EASTER WHEN YOU'RE LIVING GOOD FRIDAY

Every Christian has those days when it’s hard to wait for the cavalry to show up. When you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing, but you’re worn out on waiting. This is something God has personally dealt with me about. I’ve been there and lived to tell the story.

You need to learn how to live like you’re risen when you feel dead yourself. You can have victory when everybody else has written you off. Whether you are godly or ungodly, you will go through times of darkness, but is followed by a breakthrough of light…

 …a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…
– Ecclesiastes 3:4

You will have days where you want to weep and mourn, and days where you want to laugh and dance. The same Bible that tells you this, also says, “in all things were are more than conquerors,” and that we will have trouble “sure as sparks fly upward.”

No, it’s not a contradiction. It is simply a fact of life on planet Earth that God has made us to have incredible victory in spite of our miserable failures. 

Our Christian experience is full of good and bad days. Some days, God’s power is obvious. Others, it is not. That is the difference between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but hear me on this: the power of God is just as real on both days!

For you and me, Good Friday will always be a day of betrayal, false accusations, beating, torture, pain, standing alone when you should have been surrounded by friends, and having to keep your mouth shut when you’re more than able to defend yourself. It is a day when the sky grows dark – a day of despair, shame, anguish and laying down your life.

Likewise, Resurrection Sunday will always be about new beginnings, great hope, joy and unexpected surprises. It is when your enemies have fallen out, you get a clear word from the Lord, and doors you thought would never be open, have been blown off the hinges. The power of God shows up and so does victory.

Again, the power of God is real on both days! If you can’t tap into his power on Good Friday, you’ll never see the Easter mornings God has planned for you. Yes, it is the will of God that you should know how to think and what to think when all hell is breaking loose!

God’s power has never been a “get out of jail free” card for life’s desperate situations.

 …a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…
– Ecclesiastes 3:4