Christ Has Risen!

Christ has Risen!  Those are the words in the Daily Word on Easter Sunday.  For Christians Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.  It is the high point of the Lenten season, which began on Ash Wednesday.  For forty-six days we reflected on our lives and released what no longer served.  We let go of beliefs, thoughts, emotions, patterns, and, sometimes, people that were suppressing our spiritual growth. The clutter and trash has been removed.  It is time for our resurrection!

In Webster's Dictionary the definition of resurrection is "a rising from the dead, or coming back to life."  We are coming back to our original state, a "coming back to life."  Like the rebirth of the spring flowers after a long, dark winter, the Christ within us has risen.  The darkness that we had been experiencing has been replaced with the Light of God.  In Charles Fillmore's Keep a True Lent he states that the inner meaning of the resurrection is "the awakening and raising to spiritual consciousness of the I Am in man."

In Romans 6:4 it states "Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life."  A resurrection takes place when "we rise to Jesus' realization of the perpetual indwelling life that is connecting us with God."  (The Revealing Word - Charles Fillmore)

This Easter acknowledge the rising of your own Christ nature and consciously connect with the presence of the indwelling God.  Affirm:  In unity with Christ I realize that I am resurrected into the life, light and power of God.

Happy Easter!