Good Friday and The Empty Egg

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I originally posted this in April of 2020, but I'd like to share it with you, again. 

Good Friday. We call the day good even though it represents horrific suffering and death. 

It is the day God offered his only Son in exchange for our salvation and Christ accepted on our behalf. There is no greater love.  

An anonymous Scripture professor suggested we not look at the cross only as a symbol of Christ's suffering but also a sign of how much he loved.  

This story brought the truth of Good Friday and Easter to life in a way I have never forgotten.  

 

The Empty Egg 

As Easter time approaches, let me share with you the tender story of an eleven-year-old boy named Philip, a Down syndrome child who was in a Sunday School class with eight other children. 

Easter Sunday the teacher brought an empty plastic egg for each child. They were instructed to go out of the church building onto the grounds and put into the egg something that would remind them of the meaning of Easter.

 All returned joyfully. As each egg was opened, there were exclamations of delight at a butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass, then the last egg was opened. It was Philip's, and it was empty! Some of the children made fun of Philip. "But, teacher," he said, "teacher, the tomb was empty." 

A newspaper article announcing Philip's death a few months later noted that at the conclusion of the funeral eight children marched forward and put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said, "The tomb was empty."

Marion D. Hanks, CR, April 1992, p. 12.

For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish but have life everlasting. John 3:16

Because of Good Friday, all our tombs will be empty. 

Amen! Hallelujah!