My grandson will experience his first egg hunt this Easter Sunday. The younger cousins, the ones his mother used to hide eggs for, are making plans. At only eight months, it’s more for us than for him, but there’ll be plenty of pictures. The eggs will be “hidden” in plain sight for him to pick up and since he’s the only little cousin, of course he’ll also win the prize!
Putting all your eggs in one basket is a way of saying you’re so very certain of something that you have no contingency plan. In your mind, it’s just not possible for there to be any other outcome. In the days leading up to Passover that first Easter prior to Christ’s resurrection, that’s exactly what every last one of Jesus’s followers had done.
Word came to Jesus from Mary and Martha that Lazarus was sick. He delayed two days before making the quick trip to Bethany, just outside Jerusalem. The disciples cautioned Jesus about returning to Jerusalem where the religious leaders had just tried to stone Him.
“Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them,
“I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
“We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.”
John 10:31-33, 39 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/jhn.10.31-39.NIV
Thomas summed up what each of them must have been thinking when Jesus said, “It’s time to go.”
“Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.””
John 11:16 NIV
Those who knew Jesus either wanted to see Him crowned king or they wanted him dead. There was no room for casual dismissal that first Easter. His closest friends had gone from arguing about who would be the greatest when He established His kingdom to abject resignation. It was slowly dawning on them that this revolution they had embraced could cost them their lives.
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 NIV
https://galatians.bible/galatians-2-20
“Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him.
If we disown him, he will also disown us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.”
2 Timothy 2:11-13 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/2ti.2.11-13.NIV
“For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism.
And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.
Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives.
We are no longer slaves to sin.
For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.
And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.
We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again.
Death no longer has any power over him.
When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God.
So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.”
Romans 6:4-11 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/rom.6.4-11.NLT
True and abundant life hinges on your answer to one question. Who is Jesus?
““But what about you?” he asked.
“Who do you say I am?”
Simon Peter answered,
“You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.”
Matthew 16:15-17 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.16.15-17.NIV
Do you know Him as Savior?
Do you honor Him as Lord?
All my eggs are in one basket. I trust in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is alive forever and He is coming again to establish His eternal kingdom. Will you believe in the one and only Son of God?
“Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—”
John 1:12 NIV
A Fitting Reply 
Yes, Amen! Because He lives I can face tomorrow, because He lives all fear is gone!
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