Tuesday 19 April 2011

Easter - what do you think?

Today's passage in Luke is the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. The people are welcoming their King by shouting, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord'  but in only a few days later the shouts of joy change to "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
This made me think about the whole thing that Easter has become. It has become something that no longer celebrates the King overcoming death and paying the price for sin, but instead it has become all about eggs, chocolate, bunnies and overindulgence! We no longer celebrate Jesus and welcome him into our lives, but now instead we celebrate the fact that we have time off work. 
I put Easter into Google images and was bombarded with bunny and egg pictures! To get a picture of anything Christian I had to put into the search engine, Christian Easter! 
We used to be a Christian nation, with Christian values and taught Christian beliefs in schools. We are now a nation of agnostics, of secularism, of anything goes as long as we don't force our beliefs on others. 
How are we going to welcome the King of Kings and Lord of Lords this Easter? Are we going to be like the crowd on the way to Jerusalem singing our praises for our King, or are we going to be like the crowd a week later not recognising who Jesus really was and is? 

 

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