CS Lewis spoke of a young boy who summarized Easter as ‘chocolate eggs and Jesus risen’. As believers, we focus on Jesus risen and can enjoy a few chocloate eggs on the side. This Easter, whatever our focus, a few families in PNG will be hearing the culmination of months of teaching that will explain the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus and its significance for them.
Pray for the missionaries and the Tobo believers as they teach this weekend. Pray that they will know God’s grace to be able to cope with distractions, that those who hear the teaching will be absolutely clear as to what God has done for their sinful condition and that they will believe in the One who became man to die as our means of forgiveness.
Just recently, I discovered that the Celtic cross that has a cross on top of a circle represented the message of Christianity overcoming the worship of the sun. This Easter season, the cross could deliver these dear Tobo people from their animistic beliefs and fears.
This has been a cool reminder to me, this Easter season, of what Easter is all about and that there are still so many who are unaware and would ask, Happy Easter?