More than chocolate
Easter is the story of God entering his creation as Jesus Christ and saving us from ourselves. Jesus' life, death and resurrection told in the New Testament, unfolds as it is foretold in the Old Testament written hundreds of years prior. The whole thing is so perfectly engineered that it is very sobering, and celebrating Easter reminds us of the finer details of the story.
"'But there are some of you who do not believe.' (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, 'This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.' After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the Twelve, 'Do you want to go away as well?'" (John 6:64-67)
God knows our condition, he knows our thoughts, he knows how we will act. But he made a world of free creatures who must make a free choice. "Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil." (Jhn 6:70) Unlike Judas, we must choose to follow Christ. "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." (Mark 16:16) God cannot create a world of free creatures who have no choice, anymore than he can create a still tornado, a square circle or a married bachelor. Jesus asking "Do you want to go away as well?" implies a choice has to be made.
"That whoever believes in [Jesus] may have eternal life" Jhn 3:15 "Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God." Jhn 3:18.
Believe and be saved!
