Page 3 - HCC Conect Vol 25 Issue 3 - 28 March 2024

From the Principal
Mr Peter Ayoub
Easter is a wonderful time of the year when much of the world stops to remember the most important documented event in history - the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
As I reflected on Easter this week and the hope, meaning and purpose that comes from the Easter message, I began to consider what life would be like for those who do not have a faith. Last week I spoke with someone who stated that they did not have faith in anything. His thinking, he said, was based around that there is no creator; we are born, we live and then
we die, so therefore let us have as much fun as possible while we can. I began to ponder this and came to the conclusion that, without faith and without God, we find ourselves with no hope for a future, no purpose for being here and no meaning or absolutes on which to base our values and how we live our lives.
Easter is a wonderful time for us to reflect on the fact that we do have a creator who knows and has a plan for our lives, and that our very existence is no mistake or freak of nature. He has given us a purpose for living that incorporates a relationship with Him and the value of loving one another. He gives us hope that one day we will leave this world of brokenness and heartache to be in a place where everything will be made perfect.
As we remember the death of Christ this Easter season, may we also consider our own response to this very significant event in history. The Bible teaches us that the reason that Christ had to die is because of the ‘sins of the world’ (1 John 2:2). The Bible teaches that sin is something we do that is an offence towards God. In the Bible, we learn that all (except Christ) have sinned and fall short of the glory (standards) of God (Romans 3:23). In Romans 6:23 we read ‘For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord’.
So from these verses we get the Easter message summed up as:
1. all (except Christ) have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23);
2. the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23);
3. God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8); and
4. For 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 (John 3:16).
During Easter, we celebrate and remember the event that took place over 2000 years ago, an event so important that it shaped history and formed the dates we use today. We remember the time that God walked upon this earth as a man, Jesus Christ; the time when He died to save mankind from their sins, and the call that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
I encourage all our families to share the Easter message with their families and to attend their local church services over the coming long weekend so that the generations in front of us will continue to remember what Easter is all about. Who Jesus Christ is, why He had to die, where the Christian values we try to live by today come from, and what our personal response to this is. Let us give future generations an understanding of what it is to live in a world with hope, purpose and meaning.
May God bless you all with a safe and happy Easter break.
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