It’s Not About a Bunny :: By Nathele Graham

[Andy C]

I needed to do some grocery shopping and went to my local Walmart. As I walked around the store, trying to remember what I needed, I walked down an aisle that was an explosion of stuffed bunnies, chocolate eggs, and Easter egg dye. I was grieved. Where was Jesus in this burst of Pagan revelry?

I needed some greeting cards, and as I looked over the assortment of humorous Easter cards, I couldn’t find any that stressed the blessing of the Resurrection. Finally, I saw a couple of cards sitting very high above all the humorous cards. I’m short, so I had to really stretch to reach them, but they were nice cards and just what I wanted. Why were they displayed far from eye level?

I thought about this as I drove home, and this poem came into my mind.

It’s Not About a Bunny

By Nathele Graham

It’s not about a bunny
That hops away so fast.
It is about Christ my Saviour,
Whose love will always last.

It’s not about an egg
With a pretty painted shell
It is about Christ who died
To save us all from Hell.

It’s not about an Easter bonnet
Upon your head that’s worn
It is about Christ the King
Who wore a crown of thorns

Christ’s death was a victory
Over sin, death, and the grave.
Don’t praise a bunny, tell Christ’s story
His life He freely gave.

Celebrate His love for you
In everything you do.
The bunny always hops away
But Christ will dwell in you.

It’s Not About a Bunny :: By Nathele Graham

I needed to do some grocery shopping and went to my local Walmart. As I walked around the store, trying to remember what I needed, I walked down an aisle

www.raptureready.com

 

[mattfivefour]

Amen! Thank you for posting Nathele's excellent article, Andy. I hope everybody reads it. Even though it is an exhortation to us Christians in regards to Easter, it provoked some related thoughts in me.

The world has replaced the truth of the gift of the Savior coming as a child in a manger with the fiction of a jolly fat man in a red suit with eight tiny reindeer, flying around the world giving gifts. And it has replaced the ugly truth of Jesus Christ dying for us on the cross, which is God's wonderful gift of salvation for all of human kind, with pretty pastel pictures of spring scenes and the fiction of bunnies giving gifts of chocolate eggs. Why?

God's gifts require men and women to acknowledge they are sinners and seek salvation; but people do not want to do that. In their pride of life they want to think of themselves as basically good and as having the intelligence to work out their own way to a heavenly afterlife without answering to anybody other than their own self. Satan truly is the god of this present age; and those in this world who reject God and His Word truly are deceived by him.

Satan is not merely God's enemy, he is the enemy of the souls of every single human being who lives, has lived or ever will live ... until Christ binds that old devil and throws him in the pit. Human beings who do not acknowledge God but think that they control their own lives are indeed deceived: they are simple Play-Doh in Satan's hands.

Therefore we must never give up speaking the truth of God's Word to the world around us-- that we are all sinners and that Jesus Christ is the only hope of salvation for any of us. He is our friends' and neighbors' only hope. Indeed, He is the only hope of the entire world and His love shed abroad in our hearts should cause us to want to reach out to everybody we can.

 

[Baby Yoda]

The bunny always hops away
But Christ will dwell in you.

 

[Work4Peanuts]

The bunny gets into your garden and eats all your tender greens. I'm blastin that bun if I ever catch him.

I definitely prefer Jesus!