How did Easter become a Bunny who hides eggs???? I could see the Easter chicken hiding the eggs she laid, but a Bunny. Ah well that's not the point of this post anyway.
Do you know what Easter is? Do you know who rose?
On Good Friday Jesus was beaten, Whipped so that the flesh fell off of his back, Had a crown of thorns (and I'm not talking like blackberry thorns, the thorns they made the crown out of were and inch long) shoved down on his head so that the thorns dug in and tore the flesh on his head, he was spat upon, slapped, mocked and when he was almost dead was made to carry a cross to the place of his death. This was not a cross made from nicely milled 4x4's it was rough cut wood and the splinters dug in deep to already torn and battered flesh.
Once they reached the top of the hill he was thrown down on the cross and nails were pounded into his feet and his wrists (go to your local hardware store and find the biggest nail you can. Looks painful huh, guess what its not big enough) his cross was slammed down into a hole jarring his whole body with shooting agonizing pain. He was mocked while on the cross, the soldiers gambled for his clothing below him. During Crucifixion your body weight pulls you down until your shoulders dislocate, compressing your lungs making it hard to breath, the only way to get a full breath is to push up on feet the have a huge spike through them so that you can take a deep breath of air that is filled with the stench of blood that you realise is you own.
After all of this he looked to the heavens and said "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" and then he died on that cross.
But then came Sunday and the tomb was empty, Jesus had risen. His purpose had been accomplished. Atonement for sin had been made. Because of his death and Resurrection we have the free gift of eternal Life.
and that my friends is the true prize inside the golden egg
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