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The Journey Continues: Easter Eggs

Sunday, April 21, 2019

My journey for Easter takes me to an examination of Easter eggs as a symbol of new life. My hope is children, especially on Easter, will learn to look at the egg symbolically.

Reminding them that an egg has three parts – a shell, a yoke and the white – just as God has three parts – the Trinity – the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The egg shell also represents the tomb that Jesus was placed in and the cracking of the egg shell represents Christ rising from the tomb. This is the cultural tradition behind the Hispanic use of the cascarones – brightly colored egg-shells filled with confetti to crack over each other’s heads for fun. And shouldn’t we all rejoice that Jesus is the resurrection and the life?

Why do we use colored eggs? It was a tradition started in early-day churches where eggs were dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus. Following old ways, in America we paint Easter eggs different colors.

Colors for symbolism:

  • Dark represents “sin” because of Adam’s choice.
  • Red represents the blood Jesus shed for our salvation.
  • White represents accepting Him as our personal Savior.
  • Green represents growing in Christ as a believer.
  • Yellow or Gold represents eternal life in Heaven.

It seems like God’s order is observed in nature in the hatching of eggs.

“Let all things be done decently and in order.” I Corinthians 14:40

God is a master of order. He is not a God of chaos and confusion. I believe the world did not just “happen,” it was created by a master designer and the hatching of eggs is an example. For instance, eggs of the, potato bug hatch in 7 days; canary and sparrow eggs hatch in 14 days; barnyard hen eggs hatch in 21 days; domestic ducks and geese hatch in 28 days; wild mallard eggs hatch in 35 days and parrot and the ostrich eggs hatch in 42 days.

Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week.

Another amazing fact about hatching eggs is that every egg has a little pointed end and a big flat end. Question: When laid, which end exits the bird first, the little end or the big end? Hint: What is the strongest end? To protect the egg from breaking, the small end comes out first so when it strikes the nest it keeps the egg from breaking.

And now, to the big end – all eggs have an air pocket in the big end; and below the surface to provide a breath of air before the chick is hatched.

All eggs don’t produce chicks; only those that were fertilized by a rooster or male bird. This is the reason why eggs from barnyard laying hens require candling to examine for freshness. Add to this the thought that when a raw egg is hard-boiled there is no longer “life” and nothing more can make a chick, even if it was fertile.

Have you ever known someone who has a hardboiled soul? No life.

“The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned” NIV I Corinthians 2:14

Just like a plastic egg is an imitation, Easter without Christ is empty – no peace.

“Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and He was buried, and He rose the third day, according to the scriptures.” I Corinthians 15:3-4

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