Every Family in God's Service

It was Just a Temporary Tattoo

By Jason Brown

The other day I had the opportunity to visit my daughter’s school for a special “daddy” day.  Before we left that morning I noticed she had a temporary tattoo on her arm she had put on the evening before.…Allow me to back up for a moment.

If you don’t already know our church is hosting a month long campaign leading up to Easter in which we are putting “Empty Tomb” stickers on our cars, at local businesses, passing out cards with the logo on it, wearing t-shirts, and even wearing temporary tattoos of the “empty tomb” logo.  We are doing this to reach out and create discussion with people about the fact that Jesus walked out of the tomb and left it empty and that He lives today.

...So I noticed the tattoo and told her that I should probably take it off before she went to school.  She looked at me and said, “No dad, I will just tell everyone what it is about.”  To which I asked her what it was about.  In her own 5-year-old way she said, “That God came up out of the grave, and is not dead.”  I was one proud dad!  In a loving way as I repeated what she said back to her I used Jesus in the place of God to help her understand.  And we left for school.

At school that morning we walked into her classroom and immediately a little boy in her class yelled out, “Look a tattoo!”  My first thought was that this was a bad idea because it was going to distract the class all day.  But to my amazement it didn’t, in fact she said that she told several of her little friends that day about her tattoo, she even said something to her teacher about it.  By allowing her to wear that tattoo to school, my young daughter was able to experience telling others about Jesus.

Each of us have the opportunity to share the good news of the empty tomb to the people we encounter in our lives.  If my 5-year-old can be as bold as to do it at her school, each of us should be able to tell people we know about Jesus.   And it doesn’t take wearing a tattoo or having a sticker on your car.  It takes living a life that people notice is different.  When you do that, they will ask, because they will want whatever it is that you have that makes you that way.