EASTER

I said to MOM, "I need to post something about Easter, can I do it on Saturday?"  MOM told me that until Monday she was very busy and she was not sure when there would be time.  "What? But I want to talk about eggs, someone like the Easter bunny thing and asked what I knew about eggs and I have something to say."  Then I gave her "the eyes", you know what I am talking about.  So she said if I wanted to do it, it would have to be now cuz after tonight she wasn't sure when there would be time before Easter.  So I know it's a little early, but this dog will take what he can get.  Here goes:

How many of you have watched or will watch our peeps color Easter eggs?  Easter eggs, with their beautiful, brightly colored, decorated shells are MEANT to be broken, peeled, revealed. The constricting shell of sin and death that had held humanity captive for so long lay shattered by the power of Jesus’ resurrection. Every pink, blue, green, and purple smudge under fingernails or on your paws is a sign of Christ’s triumph over the prison of death.

C. S. Lewis once said, “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” What Lewis is “pecking at” here is this: we must be hatched, or we will “go bad.” We must “break out” of the death grip the world would hold us in and fly into the new life that Christ’s resurrection offers to all — however scary and strung with surprises that journey might be.

Jesus calls us to a resurrection life, a new life that demands we “break some eggs” so that we may live celebrating the power of life, instead of cowering before the threat of death.

Some don’t want to truly “break-out” of their eggshells, don’t want to embrace the invitation of a radical resurrection life, don’t want to throw their safe circular eggshell against the wall. We need to “hatch out” from a safe, socially acceptable life and embrace the resurrection life that our Savior offers us.

Resurrection life has no down side, because there is no fear of destruction or denial or death. Resurrection life means the end of death is not a dead end. Resurrection life offers us a life with the resurrected Lord. Jesus’ death and resurrection has given death its ultimate beating. When Jesus rolled the rock, there was a rolling away of despair, rolling away of delusion, rolling away of sin and guilt and shame.  “Because I live,” Jesus said in John 14:19, “you also will live.”

All we have to do is throw a few eggs against the wall, and show up to meet our Savior. Hallelujah. Christ is risen!

Blessings,

Goose