Jelly beans and chocolate bunnies can be exciting for a moment (especially for those of us with a substantial sweet tooth), but Christ’s resurrection is reason for celebration for the rest of eternity.

So right now, take 5 minutes from decorating the perfect Easter egg, find a quiet spot, pour yourself a cup of coffee and read the story of the resurrection.

Because Christ is risen indeed. Hallelujah!

Luke 24.1-12 (GNTD)

The Resurrection

(Matthew 28.1-10; Mark 16.1-8; John 20.1-10)

¹Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, carrying the spices they had prepared. ²They found the stone rolled away from the entrance to the tomb,³so they went in; but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴They stood there puzzled about this, when suddenly two men in bright shining clothes stood by them.⁵Full of fear, the women bowed down to the ground, as the men said to them, “Why are you looking among the dead for one who is alive? ⁶He is not here; he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was in Galilee: ⁷‘The Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, be crucified, and three days later rise to life.’”

⁸Then the women remembered his words, ⁹returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven disciples and all the rest. ¹⁰The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; they and the other women with them told these things to the apostles. ¹¹But the apostles thought that what the women said was nonsense, and they did not believe them. ¹²But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; he bent down and saw the grave cloths but nothing else. Then he went back home amazed at what had happened.

Keep reading the story in Luke here!