05/04/2026
The Easter We Didnāt Expect
You knowā¦ Iāve always found it interesting how we celebrate Easter today.
Weāve got chocolate eggs, Easter egg hunts, hot cross bunsā¦ even public holidays where everything slows down.
And honestly, itās great, family, fun, kids running around searching for eggsā¦
But have you ever stopped and thoughtā¦
why eggs? why the hunt? why all of this?
Because the original Easter story is actually quite different.
See, on the first Easter morning, there was a group of women who went out earlyā¦ not to hunt for something hiddenā¦
ā¦but to visit a grave.
They knew exactly where Jesus had been laid.
There was no mystery. No search.
But when they got thereā¦ something was missing.
The stone had been rolled awayā¦
and the body wasnāt there.
Imagine going on an Easter egg huntā¦
and the one thing you expected to findā¦ was gone.
Thatās actually the first Easter.
Not āwe found it!ā ā¦but āHeās not here.ā
And that changed everything.
And then you think about the eggs themselvesā¦
An egg looks lifeless on the outside, just a shell.
But insideā¦ thereās life.
And thatās the picture of Easter.
Jesus was placed in a tomb, it looked like the end. Like hope had died.
But three days laterā¦ life came out of what looked finished.
The grave was empty.
Even hot cross bunsā¦that little cross on topā¦
It points to the moment Jesus died.
But the story doesnāt stop at the cross.
Because the real power of Easter is this:
- the cross shows us loveā¦
- but the empty tomb shows us victory.
And hereās what I find most fascinatingā¦
On that first Easter morning, people went looking for Jesus in a graveā¦
But He wasnāt there.
They were searching in the place of deathā¦
for someone who was alive.
And I wonder if we sometimes do the sameā¦
Looking for hope, meaning, lifeā¦ in places that canāt really give it.
Because the true message of Easter is simple:
- This is not the end.
- Life can come out of what looks finished.
- And hope is more real than we think.
So maybe Easter isnāt just about finding whatās hiddenā¦
Maybe itās about discovering whatās no longer there.
An empty graveā¦ ā¦and a living hope.
