1-3 At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn’t find the body of the Master Jesus.
4-8 They were puzzled, wondering what to make of this. Then, out of nowhere it seemed, two men, light cascading over them, stood there. The women were awestruck and bowed down in worship. The men said, “Why are you looking for the Living One in a cemetery? He is not here, but raised up. Remember how he told you when you were still back in Galilee that he had to be handed over to sinners, be killed on a cross, and in three days rise up?” Then they remembered Jesus’ words.
9-11 They left the tomb and broke the news of all this to the Eleven and the rest. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them kept telling these things to the apostles, but the apostles didn’t believe a word of it, thought they were making it all up.
12 But Peter jumped to his feet and ran to the tomb. He stooped to look in and saw a few grave clothes, that’s all. He walked away puzzled, shaking his head.
We live in a world where almost anything can happen. We travel to the moon and beyond. We transplant kidneys and hearts. We travel so fast we can arrive before we left. We control rivers and remove mountains. We can do most anything, sometimes to our good, sometimes to our detriment Almost anything can happen. Little seems to be impossible anymore.
We also live in a world where the impossible has happened. A world where the most incredible, unbelievable, fantastic, breath taking event has taken place which still causes us to gasp with amazement and say, “I don’t believe it.” For it is in this our world that God chose to dwell and it is in this world that a resurrection happened!
Anything CAN happen now. The tomb is empty, the future is open!
In this there is hope for our living and our dying.
“The resurrection does not fit
into our ordinary perceptions
of human power, importance,
and value. It tells us that at
the heart and center of the
universe love is reigning.”
Morton Kelsey
Prayer thought for the week: “Lord, help me to live in hope with love.”
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