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