On the first day of April you had better be on your guard for jokes by which people will try to fool you.

Did you hear the one about the fantastic harvest the farmers in Italy are having of fresh vine ripened spaghetti?

April is also when we celebrate Easter, the resurrection of Christ, which Paul says is “foolishness” to those you don’t believe (1 Corinthians 1:18). 

Easter is no joke; it is true that Jesus rose from the dead.  There are several reasons that make it more evident that you can trust in the fact of the Easter morning event:

• Eyewitness accounts by his disciples who then went on in their lives to give themselves to the spread of the truth of the resurrection around the world. 
• The Roman soldiers did not speak out to say, “No!” to the truth of the fact that the tomb they were in charge of was still the burial place of Jesus Christ.
• There were more than five hundred others who saw Jesus after His resurrection.  Two of them met Him traveling and had dinner with Jesus after Easter morning.  There is no memorial site of the tomb of Jesus as there is for every other leader of world religions.

Paul says that if Christ was not raised from the dead then, “our preaching is useless” (1 Corinthians 15:14).  BUT, the gospel preached and shared brings Hope, Joy and Love.

This month because He is alive you can give Hope, Joy and Love to those people around you.