Easter is a time when we often think about eggs (usually of the chocolate variety!) Tonight at our Little Big Church service, Stephen talked about eggs a lot… but how they hatch into chickens… and how the chickens grow to become hens that lay eggs…
Eggs often symbolise new life, and the miracle of watching chicks hatch from an incubator reminds us of the glory of God’s creation (since hens do this naturally!) If the eggs don’t hatch properly (giving rise to the idiom ‘don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched’), there is sadness because of death. In the same way, God is sad because of the sin that separates us from Him which leads to death. Easter is the time when we remember what God has done for us in sending us His Son to die for our sins.
Often, we don’t want to see God’s mercy extended to others (as Jonah demonstrates), but the truth is that God longs for us to repent and accept His offer of eternal life. The good news of Easter is that death doesn’t have the last word. The resurrection of Jesus means new life, and just as spring and chicks hatching remind us of new life in the natural world, so the resurrection reminds us of spiritual new life available to all.
The children went on a wooden egg hunt and decorated these eggs for us.
