Easter Eggs

Finding the mysterious treasure God has for us

Do you hide Easter eggs for your kids? I love watching little kids at Easter egg hunts. We have lots of little nooks and crannies around our yard, plenty of bushes, trees, and tall grasses in which to hide the colorful plastic eggs on Easter morning. Cousins squeal with delight as they run to and fro hunting for every last candy-stuffed egg. We usually have a golden egg that contains the best prize - money!

I have never experienced a thought on Easter morning that I was going to hide the eggs from the kids. It’s not my intention for the children to never find those eggs. Quite the opposite. I hide them so they will find them, and be tickled pink by the treasure they contain. Several weeks after Easter last year, I was doing some yard work and came across three Easter eggs that had somehow been overlooked. It was disappointing. I wanted my kids to find every single egg for their benefit and enjoyment.

I think God enjoys watching us hunt for Easter eggs too. No, not actual eggs, but the mysterious treasures He has for us. Proverbs 25:2 (ESV) says, “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” It is His honor to stash away pearls of wisdom for us to discover because when we thoroughly examine His words and His ways, we are changed and renewed.

God has hidden things not FROM us but FOR us. God has so many good things in store for you and me. He is full of love and delight for us. I think He has quite a sense of humor too. He isn’t hiding anything FROM us. He is concealing some things because He wants us to search for them - for His ways and His desires for us. He wants us to go on an epic adventure with Him to find out what He has called us to do, and who He wants to be for us. Deuteronomy 29:29 says, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

In Old Testament times, BC years, before the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was not dwelling in people. People walking around on the earth did not have access to the mind of Christ the way you and I do now. Isaiah 40:13-14 (ESV) asks, “Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord or what man shows Him his counsel?” Isaiah was asking if anyone could know what God is thinking.

We humans are three parts: body, soul, and spirit. Your mind is contained in your spirit. Now, you are the only person who knows what’s going on in your mind unless you speak and share your thoughts with someone else. In the same way, only God knows what’s in His mind (Spirit) unless He shares it or speaks it. Well, He actually gave us His Spirit. So now we can have access to the thoughts of God. This is the great mystery He held back until the first Easter. This is amazing! The mystery of the cross is that we can become a new creation. Because of the death and resurrection of Jesus, we get a brand new mind, a new spirit, and that spirit is the Spirit of God. (Galatians 2:20 and Colossians 3:3)

We can be a part of what he is doing on the earth. In fact, He planned that we would be His hands and feet here in the world. He wants us to engage with Him on this awesome life journey. What Jesus did on the cross was paying for everything so we could be free to be reconciled back to Him, back to how it was in the garden, walking with Him in the cool of the evening. Back to the fellowship with Him, the oneness with Him, because His goal is intimacy.

God is giving us “Easter eggs” to find, to fetch, to open, and marvel at the treasure within. Go and seek out what He has prepared for you. He is speaking to His children. The mystery is solved - Christ is in and among us. The wonderful treasure we find is being loved by Him and loving Him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with every fiber of our being. Happy Easter!