Holy Sunday: Don’t Stay Nailed to your Cross and Don’t Get Rotten in Your Tomb

The bridge between what happened to Jesus and what happens to you is the bridge that brings God’s grace, deliverance, power, strength, and fortitude to your current situation. I know you aren’t Jesus, and maybe the Roman Soldiers haven’t carried you away to Golgotha, maybe life has carried you away, and you have been nailed down by disappointments, divorce, chaos, confusion, abuse, molestation, trials and secret things that you can’t tell anyone.

Like the way Jesus was nailed to the cross, everybody has nails to prevent them from escaping from the wood of the cross. We all face our own struggles and challenges, just like Jesus was nailed to the cross. These “nails” can be emotional, physical, or spiritual, and they affect people from all walks of life, regardless of their background or circumstances. Nobody is spared, from the Pope to the altar boy, from the richest to the poorest. Everyone is nailed to some form of a cross.

Today, we are all excited because we live and reminisce about how Jesus’ nails have been removed, and he has been taken off the cross and taken into a tomb, but he has gotten out of his tomb. What about you? Have your nails been removed? Have you gotten out of your tomb?

It’s not enough to celebrate Jesus when you haven’t personalised the experience. As we are excited about this Easter Sunday, I have a question for you. Are you still nailed to your cross? Are you still in your tomb? Some people stay nailed to their crosses; they stay nailed by complaining about what they have been through and who hurt them, who betrayed them and who gave them the kiss of death. Some stay nailed by remaining bitter, angry and unforgiving for the rest of their life. Some people stay nailed by the continuation of destructive patterns.

However, some manage to get the nails off and get down the cross but they remain in the tomb of regrets, misery, agony, and depression and they stop living; they stop breathing and they anesthetize the pain with some drug, social media addiction, sex, or social vice, and they continue to wrap themselves up in the grave clothes of guilt and shame- still lying in their tomb of negativity.

Listen up; there is no easy walk to success anywhere; like Jesus many of us would be nailed to our crosses and lay in our tombs; we would pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our aspirations, hopes and desires. Dangers and difficulties have not deterred us in the past and will not frighten us now. But we shall persevere and overcome, because that’s what we are- OVERCOMERS.

I want you to know that because of the POWER of the RESURRECTION, Jesus is more than you could ever need. Jesus is more than the eyes can see. We don’t deserve his love, but he will always be there. Jesus is the greatest example of generosity in this world of greed. When Jesus piped up and hit the scene, He changed the scenery and met diversity with serenity- if you’re looking for peace, he offers plenty. He is a Father to the orphan and a shelter to the homeless; he is the hiding place for the abused and anchor for our storms. He stormed the gates of hell and could not be stopped even when the world tried. If you don’t know Jesus, your future is tragic. He came to save children, pilgrims, change men and heal women, save lives, erase lies and kill demons.

The power of the resurrection is available to you to tap into it. May the RESURRECTION POWER of CHRIST awaken a greater spiritual force and strength so that we can passionately pursue our God-given dreams. It’s not good enough when He is risen and you are still nailed to your cross and laying in your tomb. You must also resurrect above your nails and your tomb and rise above negative situations, trauma, that crisis and that dilemma.

Happy Easter, and may the joy of the risen Lord fill our lives.