Matthew 28:6
We have been getting ready for Easter all month. Decorations, Madeline's Resurrection Eggs, Clara's new Easter Basket, Sunday School lessons at Church, food prepared for Sunday lunch, eggs are ready for the hunt, etc.Most importantly I have been getting MY heart ready.I am currently reading Max Lucado's God's Story your story. In chapter six, Your final chapter becomes a preface, he very uniquely discussed Jesus's resurrection. Death seems like such a total end. No matter how we eat, take care of ourselves, treat ourselves with the very best medicines and medical care, do your best to live forever still we all die. Some much to early. It all seems to so scary and final, until we read Jesus's resurrection story.
Matthew 28:2-6
New International Version (NIV)
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
"He is risen" Three words in English. Just one in greek. Egerthe. So much rests on the validity of this one word. If it is false, then the whole of Christianity collapses like a poorly told joke. Yet if it true than God's story has turned your final chapter into a preface. If the angel was correct then you can believe this: Jesus descended into the coldest cell of Death's prison and allowed the warden to lock the door an smelt the keys in a furnace. And just when the demons began to dance and prance, Jesus pressed peirced hands against the inner walls of the cavern. From deep within he shook the cemetery. The ground rumbles and the tombstones tumbles. Out he marched the cadaver tuned King with the mask of death in one hand and the keys of Heaven in the other. Egerth! He has Risen!
What he did with his own grave he promises to do with yours: EMPTY IT.
(Lucado, God's Story)
John 11:25-26
New International Version (NIV)
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Jesus promises us that death is not our final chapter. I can write as many as I wish here on earth, but the greatest will be with him.
Happy Easter everyone!
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