Today is Resurrection Day,
the most glorious of Christian holidays. We last met on Friday, remembering the
Lord’s death on the cross. But we knew that Sunday was coming when we would
also remember His victory over the gruesome death of crucifixion. We now see the
vindication of God over the enemies of Christ and the hope of our own victory
over sin and death. Today is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice
and be glad in it.
All of the disciples failed to look forward to the
Resurrection of Jesus. They could not comprehend either that He would die in
Jerusalem or that He would be raised from the dead. They missed them both. But
even after the cross, they did not look towards the Resurrection. And even
after the Resurrection, even after the empty tomb, they still were slow to
believe that Jesus had actually risen and defeated death. They even failed to
believe the witnesses that these things were true.
Let us not be unbelieving but believing. Let us look to the
empty tomb with joy in our hearts and hope for our future. Jesus is risen,
indeed, and this changes everything about what we will face in our future and
how we will gain the victory that is ours through our risen Jesus.
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