The True Meaning of Easter

Instead of all the commercialized items like chocolate bunnies and egg hunts, we should shift our focus for Easter to faith and rebirth. All of the superficial material things that are brought out at Easter time have really no meaning, to the true meaning of Easter. I believe a large part of this is designed to trun people away from developing a spiritual relationship. That is what we are after all spriitual beings. Within the world today we are being lead away from a true spiritual path, to one that is man made. 

At Easter time, images of new life are usually easy to find, with spring in the air. Newly grown flowers, newly born animals, birds returning to their place of origin after a long winter. Everything is renewing, being re-birthed, coming back to life. Easter has a much deeper and symbolic meaning that needs to be taught. On Easter Sunday, the day when the resurrection of Jesus is remembered. It is the proof that Jesus had indeed conquered death making our faith in Christ not without hope. Within the message that is taught we should also remember the Jesus is alive forever, he sacrificed his human life for the better of all mankind.

After the resurrection from the dead into spirit form. Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even after dying” ~ John 11:25. Though we should understand that dying does not always mean a physical death, as it did with Jesus. It can represent the death of an old life and the resurrection of a new life. It all occurred for you and for me, one man who changed all of our lives. When we think of those few people in life that have sacraficed their lives for many people, we should understand the unselfish act in which they gave of themselves. And what it must have meant to them to preform that act.

*Did you know that Rabbits are a powerful symbol of fertility and new life? That is why they are used to represent Easter.



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