A man was driving along the highway, when he saw the Easter Bunny hopping across the middle of the road. He swerved to avoid hitting the Bunny, but unfortunately the rabbit jumped in front of his car and was hit. The basket of eggs went flying all over the place. Candy, too. The driver, being a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulled over to the side of the road, and got out to see what had become of the Bunny carrying the basket. Much to his dismay, the Easter Bunny was dead.
The driver felt guilty and began to cry.
A woman driving down the same highway saw the man crying on the side of the road and pulled over. She stepped out of her car and asked the man what was wrong. “I feel terrible,” he explained, “I accidentally hit the Easter Bunny and killed it. There may not be an Easter because me. What should I do?” The woman told the man not to worry. She knew exactly what to do.
She went to her car trunk, and pulled out a spray can. She walked over to the limp, dead Bunny, and sprayed the entire contents of the can onto the little furry animal. Miraculously, the Easter Bunny came to back life, jumped up, picked up the spilled eggs and candy, waved its paw at the two humans and hopped on down the road. 50 yards away the Easter Bunny stopped, turned around, waved and hopped on down the road another 50 yards, turned, waved hopped another 50 yards and waved again!
The man was astonished. He couldn’t figure out what could possibly be in that woman’s spray can that gave the Bunny life! He said to the woman, “What was in your spray can?” The woman turned the can around so that the man could read the label. It said: “Hair spray. Restores life to dead hair. Adds permanent wave.”
[For all the humorous stories I’ve heard Steve Kordahl give, I think this is a new one]
It is from such a silly story that much of our society celebrates Easter. The resurrection of Jesus is hardly the focus of this season. Instead, our society fills this month with pastel colors, eggs, bunnies, and candy and mixes them all together until the season is over. What’s the point of these things? There doesn’t seem to be any. For many, this is a time to sugar up with candy, change the decorations to spring, and organize an egg hunt with no real reason but to do it!
Of course, it is the Christian Church that knows the real reason for the season which is the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. A resurrection that proves Jesus is who He said He was and did what He said He would do! Probably the oldest of the Christian Creeds recorded is found in a biblical passage in Corinthians. This was a creed that Christians put together to declare in simple terms the faith they claim.
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,”
(1 Corinthians 15:3–4)
The early Christians knew the death and resurrection of Jesus was everything, it was “of first importance”. Without the resurrection, we honestly have no hope for any heaven or relationship with God. If John Lennon asks us in his popular song to “Imagine there’s no heaven.”, the bible answers with the words,
“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.” (1 Corinthians 15:17–19)
It’s unfortunate how our society has made the season of Easter such a meaningless display of bunnies, candy, colored eggs, bonnets, pastel colors, and the like when the season declares the most wonderful truth of all:
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”” (John 11:25–26)
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