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Well I’m a bad blogger. LOL I didn’t get around to making an Easter post. I spent most of the weekend planting a garden, cleaning and cooking. I hope everyone had a wonderful time spending the day with family.

For us Christians, Easter Sunday is a day that we celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. As Christians though, we should be thinking about this every day!

I’ve been recently thinking about a story I read a long time ago and I wanted to share it with all of you.

A terrible disease had spread across the world. Hospitals were filled with people who were dying, and doctors everywhere were searching desperately for a cure.

Scientists finally discovered that the cure could only come from the blood of someone who had already survived the disease and developed the antibodies needed to save everyone else.

After searching everywhere, they found that only one person had the blood that could produce the cure.

It was a young boy.

The doctors explained to his father that using the boy’s blood to develop the cure would cost him his life.

The father stood at the window of the hospital and looked outside. People were walking along the sidewalks, talking and laughing, living their lives as if nothing were wrong. They had no idea that their only hope was inside that hospital.

With tears running down his face, the father agreed.

The boy’s blood was used to make the cure. Millions of lives were saved.

Soon the hospitals began to empty. People went back to work, children returned to school, and life slowly returned to normal.

And before long, most people forgot about the boy who had died so they could live.

The father wanted to scream at them. Don’t you remember the sacrifice that was made for all of you? And you don’t even care. It broke his heart.

Friends this is what Jesus did for us! He gave His life as a sacrifice. We would perish if not for Him. Here it is just a couple of days after Easter and we have all gone back our normal lives. How many of us have forgotten all about the message from Sunday morning? Shame on us for ever taking for granted this sacrificial gift! It wasn’t just His death but it was everything that He went through. The pain and suffering that was meant for us. He took it all.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” John 3:16-17

Let’s remember every day what Jesus has done for us. Not only did he suffer and die on that cross. That would have been enough! But He still continues to bless us in so many ways.

Blessings,

~ Cheryl