Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones (we 8th April 2012)

I’m not too keen on eggs and the prospect of having to eat a runny boiled egg is too much for me!

Chocolate eggs are, of course, an entirely different matter and at this time of year Easter eggs of every shape and size are bulging from the supermarket shelves and therfore plenty of choice.

I’ve been given one already and how tempting it is to indulge! Eggs, of course, are a natural symbol of new life and a perfect example of packaging!

Who would have thought that under the plain exterior new life is being formed soon to shatter the shell and break out into the world.

Central to the message of Easter is the death of a young man on a cross. Nothing unusual about that, Roman authority was not to be challenged and this cruel and shameful deterrent was a means of making that known.

From his cross Jesus cried in agony ‘It is finished’, sin and death yielding their strangle hold of power to his suffering love. Redemption lavished upon an undeserving world as Jesus died that first Good Friday.

The cross, however, was not the end. God raised Jesus from the dead and that’s why we celebrate with great rejoicing this coming Sunday. Easter is much more than chocolate eggs, cute bunnies and what’s on TV.

It is God’s saving love revealed in the cross of His son and this Easter Sunday and every Sunday the good news is proclaimed – Death could not handle Him, The grave could not hold Him – He is risen, He is risen indeed!

Rev. David Jones

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