Easter Sunday 2018

It's one thing to hear that Jesus died for your sins & another thing entirely to believe it. In a similar case of potentially too-good-to-be-true information, Japanese Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda continued hiding in a jungle in the Philippines until 30 years after WWII ended when a former superior officer was found & sent to convince him the war had truly ended. Just as Onoda dismissed all written attempts to convince him as propaganda and all talk from those he came across as misinformation, we often have trouble believing the bible and our friends' testimonies. It may take the word of a superior officer, Jesus, to finally persuade us to give up on the wars that have been over for us since Jesus died on the cross to end them for us. Jesus wants us to come out of the jungles of the perceived wars in our lives and walk in the freedom He has already secured for us.