Dear Friends,

Please know you are in my prayers during this coronavirus disruption. I pray that God keep you healthy and provide for your needs.

Today, I’m going to step away from a post about stocks although there is surely much to say there. The traffic at my website e-mail has increased notably in this downturn and the economic situation is surely of concern to us all.

I want to say to you a week in advance, “Happy Easter!” Jesus has risen! And indeed it is a season of true celebration of the salvation God accomplished and has made available to the world through faith in Christ. The backdrop this Easter season is different but the truth is unmovable. Thank God!

You know, we all at one time or another say “I think,” “I feel,” “I believe” as we go about our lives. At a time of great uncertainty like the present time and with Easter approaching, I think on a question that the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, asked Jesus before Jesus was sentenced to be crucified. Verses 37 and 38 of John, chapter 18 read:

37“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.” 38“What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.” (Berean Study Bible)

Pilate asked Jesus, “what is truth?” That is the central question and Pilate was surely going to the source for the answer when he asked Jesus. Consider the words of Jesus in John 14:6:

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”(Berean Study Bible)

And in John 8:32, Jesus said:

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (Berean Study Bible)

And the true One, Jesus, the source of all truth, told Martha in John 11:25 the answer that transcends all else:

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even though he dies.” (Berean Study Bible)

What I feel, or think, or believe is only valid if it has the truth behind it. Jesus is the truth. Faith is important but the object of my faith, or trust, is THE important matter. The truth is what matters. Pilate was asking the right question. And the truth is a “who,” namely Jesus Christ.

As Easter approaches once again, we remember what Jesus did. The gospel (means “good news”) happened over 2000 years ago. The gospel is spelled out in I Corinthians 15: 1-5 as the Apostle Paul writes:

“1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.” (NKJV, Bible)

My security cannot rest on what I feel, or think, or even what I sincerely believe in if what I believe isn’t truth. My feelings change minute by minute. My thoughts can be all over the map. And I can believe many things that aren’t true. Only the real truth, the absolute truth, can anchor me come what may.

Jesus answered Pilate’s question and His resurrection at Easter proves all He taught as truth; yes, it especially proves His victory over our sin and death. When Jesus is believed, one is resting His hope on solid ground.

With Jesus, I can know “the rest of the story.” The story doesn’t end with these days of coronavirus. In fact, the story never ends when you trust in Jesus Christ as Savior because God grants eternal life. After this life is over, we can live for infinity with Him in His perfect Heaven. Eternal life is God’s gift to anyone who believes Jesus:

John 3: 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (NKJV, Bible)

We all need a sure thing, an absolute anchor in the storm. His name is Jesus.

Friends, I thank God for each of you. May He bless and keep you. And again, Happy Easter!

See you next time