ELECTRIFY

The current times seem to terrify some people - economy and finances, world chaos and war, dismantling and destruction of what we once knew was honest, secure and safe. The fear of the future descends upon them like a dark, gloomy cloud ready for the storm. Thunder echoes in the heavens as the lightning flashes and we get a very small glimpse of the power of the storm. And yet…

The damage has been done. It’s time for healing, awakening and revival. Electrify your life! Harness the energy and create new circuits in our minds. The curtain was torn.

Passover, called Pesach in Hebrew, commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt - a miracle in itself that included the parting of the Red Sea. As Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he was among many who came to observe the annual feast of Passover. As many as 250,000 lambs would have been sacrificed and millions of people would have come to celebrate. John the Baptist declared that Jesus is “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

Jesus knew what awaited him: betrayal, arrest, mocking, beating and crucified but He was there to fulfill prophecy. He is the King who sacrificed death on the Cross for us. He defeated Death. 1 John 2:2 says “He [Jesus] is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” Jesus died at the exact moment that the sacrifice for Passover was held. Luke tells us in Luke 23: v 44-46

 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

But that is just the beginning for us as believers! We can go directly to God through Christ. If that doesn’t “electrify” us, set us on fire for the Lord and give us a new energy, then we need to revisit the story of the cross.