As always, I am a day late and a dollar short...or in this case, 4 days late. On Easter Sunday, I was complelled to look at each account of Christ's resurrection and compare them. Something occurred to me, sitting there in the quiet of the morning with my Bible in one hand and my coffee in the other...the stone was rolled away. Now, I know what you're thinking, that is the basic principle of the story right?! And yes it is. But WHY? That is what I never thought about before. You see, pictures all depict Jesus walking out of the tomb with this huge stone on the side. The stone was moved so that Jesus could get out, right? WRONG!
The stone was moved so that others could go in! What was I thinking that this Jesus of whom I speak would need an angel to unseal him from the grave. This same Jesus who can walk on the water, talk to the waves, and enter through locked doors would not need anything moved out of His way. But, if the stone were not moved, no one else could see that it was empty inside. And that is just what happened. When Peter and John and the women looked inside, they saw only an angel, and the grave clothes folded neatly where the body had been. (now, I have to be honest, the mom in me REALLY wants to use that as excuse for my own sons. "See Jesus made his bed when he got up!" It would not be the first time I have pulled the Jesus card... "I bet Jesus didn't fight with his brother" "I bet Jesus didn't give his mother a hard time about getting a bath" Sad I know, but true.)
Will you go in? Will you enter the doorway that He left open for you? The tomb is still empty, and He is still ALIVE!
~D
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