Where Will You Be?
Easter is a time for decisions. I remember one Easter season when my wife and I were invited to visit a family and share the Gospel with the man of the house. He was a lieutenant on the local police force and rather intimidating, but he listened. Before the night was through he made a decision to accept Christ as his Savior but when asked about baptism, he said, “I’ll wait till Easter.” When I inquired as to his reason, he replied that on that year, Easter would also be his wife’s birthday and it would make the day extra special. Now that was a decision! But another man the week before Easter stood afar off from the cross of Christ and watched. But when Christ resurrected, he was one of the first to the tomb regretting his earlier decision when he could have chosen to be near his Savior when He was crucified, a decision he would regret the rest of his life. Instead he stood afar off. Yet the young policeman made a much better decision which changed his life and the lives of those around him. Oh, and by the way, from the police to the pulpit, that’s right, that intimidating police lieutenant is now a pastor of a thriving church in his home town! Now that’s a decision made in the Easter season that had eternal consequences! Where will you be this year, afar off as a spectator, or up close and making the right kind of decisions?
-B.N. Rundell