Downs suggests today we “Thank Jesus that He takes a risk on [us] over and over again. Thank Him that the grave did not hold Him down and that He is a risen and living King.”

It continues to amaze me that Jesus forgives me over and over and he’s coming back one day to call me to be with him forever. I am well aware how frequently and deeply I let him down, and fall short of even human standards, not to mention God’s standards. The fact that death could not hold him in the grave both gives me relief and also awe. I will thank him today for all he has done and continues to do, and I will try to thank him even more often. I’m grateful I am chosen, loved, forgiven, accepted, reconciled, redeemed; I really am.