Interactive Easter

Pastor Mark Jeske

Ask millennials why they prefer playing video games to watching television and they will give you a quick answer: because the games are interactive. TV is a passive experience. You just sit there. With screen games you participate in the story, become one of the characters, and influence the outcome. Video games are personal.

The incredible events of Holy Week are not only a great drama for us to watch, passively admiring and worshiping Jesus Christ for what he pulled off. Your baptism actually connects you to Christ and puts you into the story: “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life” (Romans 6:4).

Isn’t that amazing? Through faith in Christ you are personally involved in the events of his Passion. As he suffered for you, you are there. As he died your death, your sins were being judged and punished. As his lifeless body was gently laid in the tomb, you were buried too. And as he came to live, you and I experienced a spiritual resurrection for a new life.

We gaze in awe and adoration back at those stories, not just as history buffs but to celebrate our new hope, our new identities, and our new energy for service and usefulness.

We’ll be alive in eternity. We’re alive now.

Devotion used by permission of Time of Grace®. For more information, visit timeofgrace.org