Hello fellow Easter People!
 

We live in the light and hope of our Risen Lord.
 

We have a God that loves us and cannot be defeated, even by our greatest attempts to do away with him. What glorious news!
 

I wonder if you have noticed some adverts recently for Uber Eats – a nationwide take away delivery service? Their adverts focus on a call to relax and take a load off (preferably for them by ordering a take way through their service). They use the repeated refrain ‘Uber Eats – for when you’ve done enough!’
 

They amusingly star well known people tiring of doing what they are known for. Jude Law is not interested in romance, and Javier Barden has had enough of being a villain, and Alan Pardew, Tony Pullis and Sam Allardyce are swapping the dug out for the spa. The idea is the guys can all take a break because they have done enough.
 

Post Easter, this made me think of Jesus. If anyone has done enough it is Him.
 

But how often do we live into that post-resurrection reality?
 

Do we accept that Jesus, through his life, death and resurrection has done enough?
 

For you, for me and for the whole world?
 

It is easy to watch the news and wonder, or to recall our own griefs and question: Is what Jesus did that first Easter enough for all this mess and pain?
 

Yes.
 

That first Easter was the beginning of the end.

The beginning of the end of a broken world.

A new dawn has broken, and the world is not the same.
 

And although we seem to go through repeated destructive cycles (while each generation of humanity has to work out how to use their freedom and find God again) that First Easter made a way beyond that repeated behaviour possible. Now, at any point we can choose to return to God, to accept love and forgiveness and walk the way of Jesus, because now we can understand and trust His Grace. Jesus satisfied the need for justice and so mercy is abundantly available to those who seek it.

As post resurrection Easter People, a new choice, a new way is open to us. Will we accept that Jesus has done enough and turn to him to lead us through?
 

I hope so.
 

Blessings, Jo.