Bunny, Egg or Cross

Child-like?

By Gary Green

Well the time of Easter Bunny has come and gone.

Funny how as little children the fantasy world seems so real and our innocence to realities allowed us to dwell in a world beyond that we could see, touch or feel. (child-

like)

Being a believer requires child like faith. There are at times things we must accept as true because our Father (God) has said it is so. With the believer the spiritual realm is one of these things we cannot see it, but we can observe signs and consequences of its reality and that relates to good and evil alike.

The bible says that no one is Good but God, (Mark 10:18) so one can say evil is the absence of Goodness. So the fruit of evil would be the absence of God being involved. Because God only does good. Therefore one can argue people who demonstrate evil actions are a life absent of God. Just as God is Light, Darkness is the absence of Light.

The whole of creation is a mirror into the spiritual world which is the greater reality as its eternal by nature, whereby our physical reality is temporal ( by nature it has a beginning and end)

Our ability to be part of the Kingdom of God is only possible because the very things we as believers remember during the Easter Weekend.

Whilst the world’s lost in fables of Easter bunnies and easter eggs, we should take the time to ponder on what God has done through the Cross of Calvary for mankind as a whole and more particularly ourselves, as we know we were once enemies of God, while lost in our Sin. However now because we have accepted God’s solution to our problem (sin, that made us enemies ), the embracing of God’s solution the work of the Cross. (ie that which Jesus achieved for us by his death on the Cross) We are now declared “righteous” (without sin and guiltless ) and now friends with God.

Such is the enormity of what the Calvary’s moment achieved for mankind and us.

The Easter story and taking our time out to remember God and what he has done for us, seems the least we should do. As the book of Ephesians says , saved by grace through faith lest any man should boast.

What a sobering thought we could do not one thing not one thing to pay our sin debt as we are bankrupt of spiritual currency to pay for the penalty for sin. All we were capable of doing was increasing our Sin Debt, and never able to pay it off. Truly a dilemma with far reaching levels of consequences for mankind and ourselves, with finally the Lake of fire was our final destination.

Praise God we are now friends and with God “declared” by God to be righteous.

We are God’s children and his friends now. He is our Father and we belong to his Kingdom and live now life in the Kingdom of God; while here on this earth.

Blow the easter bunny. Give me God and a life in the kingdom and being a citizen of Heaven. With our eternal life lived in Heaven it self.