This Day In Two Perspectives(Easter Sunday & April Fool's Day).

This Day In Two Perspectives.

Today in the christian religious world is Easter Sunday, a day set aside to mark the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and the 40th day counting from the holy period they call lent; during which adherents are to abstain from meat.

To the secular world, it's a new month, and April Fool's day; a day when folks across the globe fabricate and share all manner of mischievous hoaxes and gambits. It's apparently a free day of perjury; a day to lie, and to be lied to, a day when to love and make(fabricate) a lie is very entertaining and most welcome.

In contrast to these perspectives, scriptures clearly show that the believer in Christ is not called to observe days, months and times; neither is the believer to be judged in meat or drink, in respect/regard of a religious holy day or new month.

Galatians 4:10-11 "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Colossians 3:16-17 "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:"

Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Shadows Vs Substance.

Religious Feast Days Vs Christ. 

The religious feast days of the old covenant were just a shadow of things to come; as much as the religious feast days instituted by men in present day christendom, to commemorate the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, are nothing but reflections on things accomplished by God in Christ. 

If we observe shadows and obsess/preoccupy ourselves with mere reflections and not the very substance which is Christ himself, we are of all men most to be pitied.

Sadly, shadows and reflections so often distract and even obscures the light of the very substance. In the light of Christ who is the very substance, the remembrance/memorial of his death and resurrection is not something to be religiously done on certain appointed feast days, but as often as we gather/assemble in his name. The shadow and reflection of religious feast days appointed by men, obscures this light. 

If the remembrance, spiritual apprehension and appreciation of the death of Christ, is not that which we engage in as often as we gather/assemble in his name, but that which we merely do on a certain religious day called 'Good Friday'. If his death and resurrection from the dead is not that which our faith rests on from day to day, but that which counts for us only on a certain religious day called 'Easter Sunday'; then we are most certainly caught up in shadows and reflections, and not the very substance.

That which the Lord commanded to be done as often as we gather; that which we should always keep in memory from day to day, as what our faith rests on, is what religious men set aside a day to mark. We must thus endeavour to always set the Lord before us, to always keep in memory, his death and resurrection, and not be distracted by the religious festivity of certain days and dates appointed by the religious world, to remember him.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come."

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

Psalm 16:8  "I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved."