What do Valentine’s Day conversation hearts and Easter have in common?
Those candies are in some of our plastic Easter eggs for this coming weekend. Several cases of the bagged treats were donated to our church by a local service group, just as we needed filler candy for our children’s Easter egg hunt and celebration. Yes, we have an egg hunt, at church. But we make sure the children understand the celebration is not about bunnies and baskets, but about Jesus — his life, death and resurrection.
On Saturday, when we have food and fun, the hundreds of colorful plastic two-part faux chicken eggs will have candy inside.
[Side note — is it a faux egg, a faux chicken or a faux egg from a faux chicken? Hmm.]
But by Sunday, a lot of those eggs — if not all — will be empty.
On a Friday, Jesus was crucified, died and was buried. On Sunday, his tomb was empty. For weeks afterward, hundreds of people testified they saw him alive.
Historical records attest to all of these things. They are in fact indisputable.
The debate on Jesus centers more on personal belief — do you believe the facts? Do you accept that hundreds of fulfilled prophecies are a strong support to belief that many more will be fulfilled?
Do you believe what Jesus did by dying and coming back to life was done for you?
That’s the question of Easter. The promise of Easter is that because Jesus died, your sin debt is paid; and because he lives, you can have life eternal.
If you have empty plastic eggs lying around in a few days, let them remind you what Jesus did for you.
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