There is no doubt about it. Satan is busy selling lies to our culture. Part of his agenda is to get people to doubt who they are created to be, their callings from God, and how He has gifted them to bless others. Today, we have scores of young people who are questioning whether they are male or female… some even identifying with a plethora of other so-called “genders.”
The search for significance, purpose and meaning is real. But for followers of Jesus Christ, we must see it in the light of the amazing holy days we commemorate on Good Friday and celebrate on Resurrection Sunday. Because of all the confusion in our culture, we should make sure that our children and grandchildren know what Jesus Christ did for us on Golgotha in order that we may be called the children of God (1 John 3:1). We must take advantage of what this weekend offers us, not only to build and honor your family’s traditions, but also to build your family’s faith in a holy, loving, and merciful God.
Forgiveness of sin was paid for on the cruel cross. The eternal life He offers gives us great hope for this life and the life to come. All because Jesus was willing to be crucified on our behalf to redeem us. We have every reason to praise Him for His sacrifice and His glorious victory over death and the grave. But do our children and grandchildren understand the importance of this? Don’t just go through the motions hoping they will catch it by osmosis. Be intentional.
There’s much we can do to impress the Truth of Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday into our children’s hearts and minds– observing a Good Friday service together or watching some Easter videos as a family depicting this week of Jesus’s life. On Saturday, talk with your children about why we as Christians look forward to celebrating Jesus’s resurrection on Sunday. Point out that spring is about new birth, new beginnings, just as Jesus died on the cross and rose again to give us a new birth, a new mind and heart (Ephesians 4:23-25).
Strong families are built intentionally. Wise parents/grandparents use every opportunity to teach the next generation a biblical worldview about everything, and this is especially true about Easter. Knowing that God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to remove our sin from us, as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12)! Biblical truth will break the cycle of self-doubt and point us to a higher purpose:
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
~Ephesians 2:10
