Easter Hope for Tomorrow
7 EASTER REFLECTIONS FROM
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 PETER 1:3
Welcome
Easter is a time of celebration. But it doesn’t change the fact that life is hard. We still have our worries, our debts, our losses, our illnesses, our weaknesses and our difficult relationships.
Nothing in the Bible promises us a free pass from any of these things. But when we put our faith in Jesus Christ, we are promised a life of hope. For today. For tomorrow. For eternity.
This Easter, let the writers of Our Daily Bread become your companions. Through the reflections and guided Bible studies in this booklet, they will help you explore what it means to have “a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” His victory over sin and death is not just a guarantee of heaven, but a promise of His presence and strength for each day until then.
“We have this hope,” the Bible assures us, “as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (HEBREWS 6:19).
We pray this little booklet will help you draw near to Him this Easter as you consider again all your Saviour achieved for you upon the cross.
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Read
Start by asking God to help you read the day’s Bible passage. You could read it once, twice or three times. Take your time and soak it in as you listen to what God is saying.
Reflect
Each Our Daily Bread writer is a friend and companion on life’s journey. They will draw alongside you to think about how God’s heart is revealed in His Word.
Respond
Use the closing prayer to help you begin responding to what your Father has said to you. Keep the key verse on your mind throughout the day, letting God speak to you through it.
Question
Here are three helpful questions to ask every time you read the Bible: What does this passage tell me about God? What does it show me about myself? How is it going to help me connect with God today?
Luke 9:22–26
A Coffin for a Suitcase
22 And he said, ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.’
23 Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
26 Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.'
Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
LUKE 9:23
They did not expect to live long. UK missionaries in the nineteenth century often believed their overseas ministry would probably last a year or two before they’d succumb to disease and death. “Consequently, they would pack all their belongings not into a suitcase, but in a coffin, and then set sail,” explains Peter Maiden in Discipleship Matters.
Imagine packing your possessions into the symbol of your own death! Stepping onto ships carrying their coffins, these men were a literal outworking of Jesus’ command: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (LUKE 9:23).
In their example, extreme though it is, the saving heart of God is revealed. For first Jesus had explained how He would take up His own cross: “The Son of Man must suffer many things . . . and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life” (V. 22). In other words, Jesus packed His own ‘coffin’ when He left heaven. He didn’t just come to live here, but to die. For you. For me. And to be raised again to a new life that can never be lost.
The call to take up our cross is sobering. It involves sacrifice, following wherever Jesus may lead. But it’s the only life where we can walk alongside the One who knows what it takes to lose it all on earth to gain something far better. Chris Wale
Jesus, thank You for leaving heaven for me, to come and die in my place. My life is Yours, for wherever You will lead me.
5-Minute Bible Study
ROMANS 6:11-13
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
1. How does verse 12 describe letting sin “reign” in our lives?
2. What might it mean to offer a “part of yourself to sin” (V. 13)?
3. What advice does verse 11 give for handling the problem of sin? What do you think it means to put this into practice?
4. What should we offer to God to experience being an “instrument of righteousness” (V. 13)?
5. What do you think it means that we have been “brought from death to life” (V. 13)? How might you experience this each day?
Lord God, help me to live this new life with You. Fill my heart and mind with Your Word and Your ways, and take away my desire to sin. For I am Yours and I want You to reign in me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
1 John 2:28–3:3
Great love!
28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
3 1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 JOHN 3:1
Walk around any bookshop and you’ll discover an array of books on parenting. Advice abounds on a multitude of childrearing topics. Yet, surely, our children’s greatest need is to be loved. That’s how they measure their worth within the family and how they know they belong. Love creates acceptance, engenders trust, builds character, and gives security. Love is not a fickle feeling; it’s a living reality.
The apostle John wrote graphically about the extravagance with which our Heavenly Father loves His children. God the Father neither skimps nor leaves us wondering. Instead, He lavishes—smothers, heaps, pours—His love on us. John tells us, “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 JOHN 3:1) Later John states "that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world” (4:14). That is love demonstrated, not merely expressed—poured out on us by Christ when He died on the cross for our salvation. It’s what transforms sinners into children of God!
And just to make sure we get it, that we understand we’re God’s children, John adds, “And that’s what we are!” (3:1). Rest in it. Don’t doubt it. Believe God loves you, and embrace all He has for you, for His love didn’t stop at the cross. It continues each and every day until we reach the Father’s House . . . and then for all eternity. Catherine Campbell
Heavenly Father, I am overwhelmed by your great love for me. Thank You for sending Jesus to die on the cross to enable me to become part of Your family.
5-Minute Bible Study EPHESIANS
1:4-8
4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us.
1. Circle each blessing this passage reveals God has given you in Jesus.
2. What does verse 4 say God did before He even began creating the world? How does this show your importance to Him?
3. How is God’s attitude towards your adoption described in verse 5?
4. What is one of the things our salvation in Jesus leads to (V. 6)?
5. How is God’s grace described in verses 6-8? What does this tell you about God’s generous commitment towards your salvation?
Heavenly Father, thank You for the riches of Your grace, lavished on me through Jesus. I have every spiritual blessing in Him; I am truly saved and restored in Your sight. Thank You for making me Your beloved child for all eternity. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
1 Peter 3:13–18
Jesus, Our Substitute
13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. ‘Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.’ 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, 16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behaviour in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.
Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. 1 PETER 3:
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A wealthy twenty-year-old was drag-racing with his friends when he struck and killed a pedestrian. Although the young man received a three-year prison sentence, some believe that the man who appeared in court (and who subsequently served a prison sentence) was a hired surrogate for the driver who committed the crime. This type of thing has been known to occur in some countries where people hire body doubles to avoid paying for their crimes.
This may sound scandalous and outrageous, but more than two thousand years ago, Jesus became our substitute and “suffered once for [our] sins, the righteous for the unrighteous” (1 PETER 3:18). As God’s sinless sacrifice, Christ suffered and died once and for all (HEBREWS 10:10), for all who believe in Him. He took the penalty for all our sins in His own body on the cross. Unlike a person today who chooses to be a substitute for a criminal to get some cash, Christ’s substitutionary death on the cross provided “hope” for us as He freely, willingly gave His life for us (1 PETER 3:15, 18; JOHN 10:15). He did so to bridge the chasm between us and God.
May we rejoice and find comfort and confidence in this profound truth: only by the substitutionary death of Jesus can we—sinners in need—have a relationship with and complete spiritual access to our loving God.
Marvin Williams
Dear Jesus, thank You for dying in my place so that I might have access to God.
5-Minute Bible Study ISAIAH 53:3
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3 He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
1. List each of the pains—emotional and physical— that Jesus experienced. Where do you see similar pains in your life?
2. List everything this passage says about “we,” “us,” or “our.” How do you relate to each of them?
3. What benefit can we gain from the suffering of Jesus (V. 5)?
4. Go through each verse again prayerfully and hand each of your pains to Jesus, asking for His wholeness and healing. Thank Him for carrying them for you!
Lord Jesus, thank You for all of the sorrows, pains and wounds You carried for me. Please help me to experience more of the healing and wholeness You bought for me! In Your name, Amen.
Matthew 27:41–52
No Longer Alone
41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 ‘He saved others,’ they said, ‘but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, “I am the Son of God.”’ 44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ (which means ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’).
47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, ‘He’s calling Elijah.’
48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, ‘Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.’
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.
Jesus cried out . . . “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
MATTHEW 27:46
As an atheist, Deb had always lived how she pleased, but after years of having her heart broken by one destructive relationship after another, she was desperate. High on heroin and contemplating suicide, she stumbled upon a Gideon’s New Testament and there discovered that after death, she would have to give account to God for her wasted life. That terrified her. So she crept into the back of a church on Good Friday, and heard the reading—today’s verses—that would change her forever. She sobbed uncontrollably, realising that she was no longer someone defined by rejection but as God’s beloved daughter.
The detail that struck Deb in her desolation was, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (MATTHEW 27:46). Many theologians believe that this phrase, together with the midday supernatural “darkness . . . over all the land” (V. 45), indicates that on the cross our sin separated Jesus from the presence of God the Father. But the thick “curtain of the temple” keeping people out of the most holy place was then “torn in two” (V. 51), symbolising how Jesus’ death destroyed the barriers between us and God. Jesus had been forsaken on the cross so that we no longer have to be. Harmful relationships bring shame, and addiction feeds off shame. Additionally, loneliness is a silent, ongoing pain. Thanks to Jesus, however, we are united with God, our shame removed. We’re never truly alone again. Tanya Marlow
Dear Jesus, thank You for Your sacrifice. Thank You for experiencing utter desertion on the cross so that I can never be separated from God.
5-Minute Bible Study
ROMANS 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1. Go through the list of difficulties in verse 35 and think of times you’ve experienced any of them.
2. Have times of suffering ever made you doubt God’s love for you? Why or why not?
3. What does verse 36 suggest about the likelihood of each of us suffering in this world?
4. What do you think it means to be “more than conquerors” (V. 37)? How does this give you hope in your suffering?
5. Circle all of the situations, people, powers and things listed in verses 38-39. Which is more powerful—them or God’s love for you?
Dear Jesus, thank You that nothing can separate me from Your love and presence. You have overcome sin, death and this world through Your sacrifice and resurrection. Help me to remember that because of Your eternal victory, I am more than a conqueror. In Your name, Amen.
Romans 10:5–10
Saved and Redeemed
5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: ‘The person who does these things will live by them.’
6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: ‘Do not say in your heart, “Who will ascend into heaven?”’ (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 ‘or “Who will descend into the deep?”’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? ‘The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,’ that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 if you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
If you . . . believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ROMANS 10:9
“I’d had enough. . . . I was definitely planning on throwing myself into the [River] Don,” recalled Steve from Rotherham. Desperate, he prayed to God for help. A few days later he met Ali, a church worker, who invited him to a group to discuss questions of faith and life. Steve attended, and changed radically: “Jesus has made a big difference to my life. . . . I know God is helping me. I can feel his presence every day. . . . To be clean off [drugs], it’s all to do with God.”
Steve believed the promises of God, confessing that Jesus is His Son, who died for him. He was saved, as the apostle Paul wrote to the Romans: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (ROMANS 10:9). With Paul, Steve would affirm that the freeing message of Jesus was now “in [his] mouth and in [his] heart” (V. 8). Changed by the love of God, his hope was real.
We may have been believers in Jesus for decades, or we may be currently wondering about this Man, the Son of God. Wherever we are in our journey of faith, we can trust that if we believe, God will free us from our sins and make things right between Him and us. Amy Boucher Pye
Saving Jesus, thank You for giving all of Yourself that I might live free, clean and renewed. Help me to show Your love to those in need.
5-Minute Bible Study
JOHN 3:16-18
16 God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
1. What must we do to have eternal life (V. 16)? What has God done?
2. Why did Jesus come into the world (V. 17)?
3. What does our trust in Jesus achieve (V. 18)?
4. What is the difference between those who are no longer condemned, and those who are still under condemnation (V. 18)?
5. When do you find it most hard to believe that salvation is not about your works, but about trusting in Jesus’ work on your behalf?
Dear Father, thank You for sending Your Son to save me. It is so reassuring to know that I am no longer under any condemnation, even on my worst days, because Jesus has fully saved and redeemed me. In His wonderful name, Amen.
Acts 2:29-36
The Best Evidence
29 ‘Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. 32 God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. 33 Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, ‘“The Lord said to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand 35 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’”
36 ‘Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.’
God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. ACTS 2:32
Lee didn’t believe in God, and he didn’t believe in the resurrection of Jesus. But Lee was a journalist with an analytical mind. When his wife believed in Jesus, he decided to study her new faith for himself. After two years of research, he gave in—to God, to the resurrection, to faith in Christ.
The change in him was noticeable. After a few months, his five-year-old daughter said to his wife, “Mummy, I want God to do for me what he’s done for Daddy.” And the daughter of Lee Strobel put her faith in Jesus too.
Many people refuse to believe in the resurrection. But reputable eyewitnesses saw the risen Jesus. One of those eyewitnesses, the disciple Peter, told a large crowd that King David was certainly dead and buried (ACTS 2:29). Then Peter pointed to a prophecy David had made. “[David] spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah,” he said (V. 31). Peter concluded, “God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it” (V. 32).
The best evidence for the resurrection is the changed lives of the eyewitnesses, including Peter. At the crucifixion, the disciples had gone into hiding. Peter actually denied Christ (JOHN 18:15-17, 25-27). Once they saw Jesus alive, everything changed. Filled with courage, they began to share the truth of the one great hope of the world—the risen Christ. Tim Gustafson
Father, I’m so grateful for the reality of Jesus’ resurrection that changes my life and gives me real hope.
5-Minute Bible Study ACTS 10:39-43
39 ‘We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41 He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.’
1. Make a list of everything you learn about Jesus in these verses.
2. What did Peter, the speaker of these words, witness?
3. What were Jesus' witnesses commanded to share (V. 42)? What did the prophets testify about (V. 43)?
4. What do you learn about the relationship between Jesus and “God”—the Father—in these verses (VV. 40-41)?
5. How does the Bible’s witness reassure you about Jesus’ resurrection and identity?
Dear Jesus, thank You that You are who You say You are. Increase my faith, I pray. And please help me to share You with someone today.
2 Corinthians 5:1–8
The Guarantee
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
[He] has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:5
Maybe they were right. Maybe I will never see him again. Heartbroken, I stared at the empty seat next to mine where my fiancé should have been. Confusion and grief were my companions on that long, lonely flight home.
Visa issues had prevented Russell from joining me. And mentors in his life had strongly opposed our relationship, even praying that it wouldn’t work out. Now that international borders separated us, would Russell start to agree with them?
But as I looked at the empty seat, my engagement ring arrested my attention. This wasn’t just Russell’s gift to me; it was his promise. Likewise, God has made a promise to His people. He “has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come” (2 CORINTHIANS 5:5). Like an engagement ring, the Spirit within us is proof that God will one day bring us to His “eternal house in heaven” (V. 1).
In this life, we “groan and are burdened” (V. 4); we struggle, often feeling as heartbroken as I did on that plane. Human promises can be broken. By contrast, God’s Word to us is utterly dependable. So we can confidently “live by faith, not by sight” (V. 7). Perhaps your faith is wavering today. Take hold of this Scripture; God has promised you life in His home. Indeed, He “has fashioned [you] for this very purpose” (V. 5), and His Spirit in you is His guarantee.
Debbi Fralick
Heavenly Father, I know I am destined for heaven because I already have a piece of heaven within me. Thank You for Your guarantee that my home will be with You for all eternity.
5-Minute Bible Study
REVELATION 21:2-5
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling-place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death” or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’
5 He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’
1. What do you learn about God’s desire for His people in heaven (V. 3)?
2. What promises are given in verse 4 about our future as His people?
3. What makes you doubt this truly is the future kingdom God has prepared for you?
4. What reassurance do you gain as you consider God’s final words in this passage (V. 5)?
Thank You, Father, that this vision of the future is trustworthy and true. I can stake my life upon it. I can set my hope fully upon this revelation. Help me to keep going each day, fixing my eyes upon that day when You will wipe every tear from my eye and welcome me home. In Jesus’ saving name, Amen.
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PSALM 119:114
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Easter Hope for Tomorrow
Let the writers of Our Daily Bread become your companions for this Easter season. Through the reflections and guided Bible studies in this booklet, they will help you explore what it means to have “a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 PETER 1:3). His victory over sin and death is not just a guarantee of heaven for those who believe, but a promise of His presence and strength for each day until then.
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