The message of Easter is...
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The message of Easter is God has rescued us from the graveyard! This was beautifully illustrated, for many of us in South Carolina in April of 1975, when we read the story of "Baby Grace" in all the local newspapers.
A lady by the name of Judy Yager of Columbia was visiting the grave of her husband who had died some six weeks before. As she was placing flowers on her husband's grave, she heard a baby crying. After looking for a few minutes, she discovered a newborn baby wrapped in a towel and lying on a grave that was covered with freshly-cut flowers. Evidently some mother who did not want her baby had left it there to die. She had abandoned her child to death. Realizing this, Judy picked up the baby to keep her warm and called for an ambulance. When the ambulance arrived and took the baby girl to the hospital, the driver named her "Baby Grace," commenting it was only by the grace of God she had been rescued from that graveyard. She had been abandoned to death, but saved by God's grace.
In a wonderful way, each of us is a "Baby Grace" because the message of Easter is the fact that God's grace in Jesus Christ has rescued us from the graveyard.
A lady by the name of Judy Yager of Columbia was visiting the grave of her husband who had died some six weeks before. As she was placing flowers on her husband's grave, she heard a baby crying. After looking for a few minutes, she discovered a newborn baby wrapped in a towel and lying on a grave that was covered with freshly-cut flowers. Evidently some mother who did not want her baby had left it there to die. She had abandoned her child to death. Realizing this, Judy picked up the baby to keep her warm and called for an ambulance. When the ambulance arrived and took the baby girl to the hospital, the driver named her "Baby Grace," commenting it was only by the grace of God she had been rescued from that graveyard. She had been abandoned to death, but saved by God's grace.
In a wonderful way, each of us is a "Baby Grace" because the message of Easter is the fact that God's grace in Jesus Christ has rescued us from the graveyard.
