Article March 25, 1991 Issue

Easter—undying promise of God's love

The joy of Easter is the triumph of God's healing love over sickness, sin, and death.

Barbara J. Presler

At the time when the whole Christian world commemorates the tragedy of Jesus' crucifixion, how important it is not to lose sight of the joy of Easter. Jesus' resurrection and ascension crown the Easter season with new hope, with the promise of eternal life.

The Son of God endured the cross that we might believe in God, his Father and ours. Jesus' whole mission of healing and redemption was to free mankind from the sins of the flesh and all suffering by showing man's sonship, or oneness, with God.

The Bible gives us the resurrection as evidence of God's supreme love for man, His beloved child. As we read in John, "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." As Mrs. Eddy explains in her chapter "Atonement and Eucharist" in Science and Health: "Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage. His mission was both individual and collective. He did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals,—to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility."

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