What is the significance of Lent and Easter?

To put it plainly, Lent is about redemption and sacrifice and Easter is about new birth. While Lent for many of us is a time of personal sacrifice, self denial and repentance, Jesus wants us to think about all the lives He touched on His way to Calvary. He knew what lay ahead, but His heart was full of love and He just went about doing good. So too, He wants us to touch many lives during this Lenten Season, to put others ahead of ourselves, to love one another, to do random acts of kindness; feed the hungry, clothe naked, comfort those who mourn, and forgive those who have wronged us. We may fast, and we may meditate, and we may pray at the fourteen stations of the cross; but, if we fail to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, we would never be changed; and that is what Easter is all about – resurrection, renewed faith, new birth, and new beginnings. There are still a few more days before Easter, there is still time for you and I to touch lives as we journey on to Calvary with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and be changed. Praise the Lord!