For many, Easter has become a celebration of the beginning of Spring. Bright colors, flowers and eggs, humans dressing up in terrifying rabbit costumes…all the things you would find out in nature. But Easter has been celebrated for almost 2000 years as much more than just the coming of Spring, more than just new life after Winter. At its heart, Easter is the celebration of new life after death, the celebration of resurrection. New life comes in Spring only to die again next Winter, but Easter heralds an eternally lasting change. The Bible says that death no longer holds sway over the risen Jesus, and that is the same life that God offers to us in Him. The glory of Easter is not just the coming of Spring and not even that just Jesus alone was raised from the dead, but that in Him, in His resurrection, we can be forgiven of our sin, we can die to what is old and corrupted and be made completely new, raised to new life with Jesus.
