As we approach Resurrection Sunday, consider that from the dawn of that first Easter morning, when Christ came out of the grave, we have been celebrating His love, His life ... and Easter became Easter every day for the child of God because we have been given Easter Life.

Easter Life is eternal life ... and that life is in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. What matters most in life is the Resurrection of Christ. There are many reasons why people will be going to church on Easter ... but the only reason that really matters is the Resurrection—the reality of the Resurrection.

The Resurrection is not peripheral ... it is central ... it is essential ... it is vital to our faith. Remove the Resurrection from our faith and Christianity collapses completely; there is nothing left. The message of Jesus to the world is the message of life:

I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live (John 11:25).