Christianity isn’t burdensome, nor is it filled with somber tones and sadness. Our faith in Jesus is meant to be overflowing with hope, and all the joy and peace of God. His crucifixion is not the culmination of a life filled with hopelessness and suffering, but is a momentary shout of pain, and death, that was the means by which he shouldered the bitterness of the world and redeemed us. Through this we have come to realize the hope of ages. He passed through those brief days and then rose to a new and amazing height of joy. His words “It is done” are not words of defeat, but of joy and of a Hope now realized. In them His sacrifice was complete, He arose, and the joy, and hope, of all Christianity lifted up with Him to embrace us in the arms of God’s eternal joy and peace.