Kids love a treasure hunt. Today we will have our kids embark on
the annual Easter Egg Hunt…finding little treasures inside the eggs they find. I always liked the eggs with chocolate in them…Mini Snickers were the best!
There is a lesson to be learned in the hunt. Kids search for the egg just to find the treasure inside. We might think that finding faith is the same way. It feels like we search in the dark sometimes. Hoping against hope to find the egg of faith.
However, I don’t think we are meant to search in the dark. Remember, God is jealous. He wants us more than anything. Much more than we could ever want him.
So I believe that we don’t hunt for the egg of faith in the dark.
Rather, I believe that we are the egg. We are the egg and God is seeking us out.
We are the one isolated in the dark, hiding ourselves from God. And God is the one who seeks us out.
God is the one on the Easter Egg Hunt. We are the eggs. We are the lost sheep. We are the son who has run away from home. We are the one lost in the wilderness. Jesus is the one who seeks us out. Jesus is on the Easter Egg hunt. And the treasure he seeks inside us is not a mini-Snickers, it is our eternal soul.
Jesus is searching for his Easter Eggs today. And that egg is you. All we can do is open ourselves to being found. Stop hiding from God. Stop burying ourselves deep in the sand of this world: the money, the possessions, the technology, the clothes, the media, etc. Stop hiding like an Easter Egg. Open yourself to being found.
Let him find it in you. Open the door…Let him find the sweet center of your soul, and transform it forever – then and only then, can you truly live the question asked today – and share the faith that’s been found in you. And yes, truly reshape the world around.
Live it. Love it. Leave it all behind. #Easter2015
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