From the Principal - Easter Service at Southern

From the Principal

Today, in our final assembly for the term, we celebrated Easter.

Easter commemorates a series of events which stand alone, atop human history and representing the most significant, momentous and consequential intervention on behalf of humankind there has ever been. Jesus, God in human form, died for our sins at Easter. Jesus rose from the dead victorious over our sins at Easter. God's love for us met its most complete and powerful expression through these two Easter events.

And today it is most common to remember this by buying and sharing chocolate eggs. No doubt, over the years, this tradition has largely lost its original symbolic meaning, but in its early days - hundreds of years ago, the eggs were painted red, to represent Jesus' death and the egg itself represented new life. Such a tiny symbol telling such a huge story.

At the assembly, I held up the very first egg that our new chooks in our amazing kitchen garden produced, which Eliana Dumas discovered just a couple of days ago. It wasn't painted but it did represent new life!! Mr Isham, our amazing art teacher, painted a Calvary scene on the stage while the assembly progressed. It emphasised two empty things - the empty cross and the empty tomb!

Hallelujah!!

There was much joy at the assembly - and rightly so. It took me years to work out the resurrection. I'm so glad God helped me to see how amazing, true, life-changing and unavoidable his resurrection, and my response to it, is. Jesus' call to us is relentless, crying out to us from the cross to be saved and resounding from the empty tomb to rise with Christ to eternal life!!

Amen!

Alan Lawson

PRINCIPAL

Easter Service at Southern