God, who has overcome death and forgiven our sins is the Lord of all creation and the lover of our souls.It wasn’t until after I finished watching the Station Eleven finale that it hit me, and it didn’t hit me naturally, but only because a friend mentioned it. Why don’t you take a moment to put on your favorite resurrection Sunday song and sing praises to our God. Jesus risen is enough to make you want to shout a hallelujah and dance for joy! Now perhaps the experience of newness of life because Jesus is alive is much richer – the love of God much deeper, and the overflow of wanting others to know this for their lives is ignited in your heart. The telling of the good news has not stopped from this time on, for thousands of years, because it is a universal message for all humanity. The angel said to go tell the others – Jesus told them to go tell the others and my goodness, did they go! Their telling and witnessing of this event flowed out like rivers that burst their banks and flooded all the landscape with water. They were the first eye witnesses of the risen Jesus, and they were the first carriers of the best news the world would ever receive. These women, filled with both fear and joy, ran to tell the others. ![]() God’s kingdom has come and right here, and now you can receive newness of life because Jesus is the living demonstration of all that God promised being fulfilled. The curse of death has been overcome, and through Jesus’ sacrifice by giving his life – the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world – our sins/our debts are wiped clean, and now we have the way back to intimacy with God. Jesus is the Messiah: King over all the earth. Everything that God promised throughout history to many prophets and people is here and now. Jesus’ bodily resurrection – Jesus alive – is God’s declaration of new creation. And you are going to witness him alive because he is going to appear to you. You daughters of Israel need to go tell the others the good news – Jesus is alive. The messengers of God tell the amazing news – Jesus is risen. There is no body of Jesus! The tomb is empty. Oh my, what a sight that must have been! What on earth is happening here they think to themselves.Īs they go inside the tomb, they are even more confronted by the sight here. ![]() And there they are confronted at the entrance of the tomb by the sensational sight of the tomb stone rolled away! Matthew’s account tells us that it was an angel that rolled the stone away and was sitting on it when they came. But as the days went by and there was nothing, hopes start to fade.īut oh glorious day! The women came to simply bless and anoint the body, as was then Jewish custom. ![]() Perhaps for a day the friends of Jesus held onto hope against all hope – maybe just maybe what Jesus said will happen. His lifeless body held in a barren and darkened womb like tomb. Only a few days earlier they had witnessed the brutal killing of Jesus and his body being buried in the tomb. We can hardly imagine what this lived reality was like for the followers of Jesus. You may like to close your eyes and listen to the words or read the words of the song as its playing, or you may have another meaningful song that reminds you of this part of The Way of the Cross. ![]() We invite you to utilise this song as part of your time with God in reflection.
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