At some point, everyone asks the question, “why does life seem so hard?” We have a hard time reconciling what we expect and what actually happens. Jesus’ triumphal entry in Jerusalem prior to His crucifixion provides us a strategy for dealing with the difficult curve balls life throws our way.

If Easter, the resurrection is the most triumphant event in history, then Calvary the death of Christ, is the most decisive. There would not be a resurrection had there not been a death. Life was released by reason of Jesus’ death. In His dying, Jesus conquered death and forever turns it around.

Easter,  not just that Jesus is risen, but His resurrection over death makes this solid, profound point; that if death has been conquered, the possibility of anything of the Father's plan for your life that is dead or dying can live again.