We need to get with the program of what God is already doing. I think we need to try to figure out, now that the holiday is over, what it is that Jesus did, and why he did it, what kind of example Jesus had in mind, and what kind of plan Jesus thought was up God's sleeve. When Paul wrote this morning's letter to the Corinthians, Paul was writing to a group of people who weren't all that much different from us. Like us, it didn't always seem to them as though Easter made much sense. It seemed to them, as it seems to us, that the Cross was a terrible thing.
Nobody wants to die.
Nobody thinks that what happened to Jesus was fun. And to a lot of people, the whole business of Easter seems almost impossible to believe. We might conceivably accept the idea that someone would willingly sacrifice himself or herself for something they really cared about, although when you get down to it, we find it hard to believe that anyone would really care that much. But if you look at what Jesus was up to, and what he hoped to accomplish, then it's even harder to believe. Jesus understood what kind of people the world was made of.