EASTER 2008
From
Bethlehem
toCalvary
by Wayne M. Warner
What appeared in
Bethlehem as a
T
HIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ralph days, dreary events, and hopeless times.
rode his horse home from It opens to us the discovery of His price-
school on some very dark less gift of transformation. He wants us
nights. One murky evening he to find our way out of this great darkness,
approached a flooded stream and his and Easter offers an equal opportunity
horse refused to enter the swirling waters. for nurturing new life, accompanied by
gleam of hope
Just then, a neighbor across the the Christ.
stream opened his farmhouse door. The In walking with Him, we discover for-
open door laid a gleam of hope across the giveness for past sins. In His presence, we
became a vision of
rushing stream. Horse and rider entered find promises of ultimate victory over
the stream—their confidence renewed. personal defeats. This God, who was in
Years later, Dr. Ralph Sockman, distin-
reality when God
Christ, invites us to lay aside our spiritual
guished radio minister, recalled that inci- uncertainties and walk with Him . . . lib-
dent from his boyhood. He confidently erated from doubt.
revealed Himself
agreed that Christ opened the door on Easter brings His invitation to accom-
the other side of death’s sullen stream, pany Him on a grace-filled trip, free from
that Christ “brought life and immortality the onslaughts of death, devastation, and
through the
to light.” God broke in upon our world defeat. Easter marks the ultimate turning
with the light of Easter. point of faith by celebrating the certain
Easter offers an experience that mends defeat of death and darkness. Easter
resurrected Christ.
broken lives. It exposes the gleam of hope reveals the promise of a life unparalleled
that has nurtured people through dog in grace, mercy, and light.
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