Monday Thought – January 18, 2016

Good Morning Friends,

“The women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but they did not find the body of Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: “The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.”’ Then they remembered his words.” (Luke 24:1-8)

When the women arrived at the tomb that Sunday morning they did not find what they expected to find!

They came with spices. The women were planning to use them on the body of Jesus. They expected to find His body in the tomb. They expected Jesus to be dead.

Instead they found the stone rolled from in front of the tomb. That solved a problem they were concerned about. They had no idea how they were going to get into the tomb. The stone being rolled away solved one problem, but what they found and didn’t find inside changed all their plans!

The women didn’t find the body of Jesus. They had seen Jesus’ body placed in the tomb. For some reason the body of Jesus was no longer there. The women didn’t understand. They wondered what it meant.

The women found two men in the tomb. They weren’t ordinary men – their clothes gleaned like lightning. What the men told them was astounding, “Jesus is alive, He has risen!”

Luke’s account is a simple one. The other Gospels don’t paint a much more complicated picture. Their accounts are simple and straight-forward. What they report in such simple terms is the most profound miracle in the history of the world – God raised Jesus from the dead.

That means everything Jesus said about Himself was true. That means everything Jesus said about us was true. That means everything Jesus said about the future was true. God proved it by raising Him to life again.

A miracle ... salvation offering – eternity ensuring – life-changing!

His, by Grace, Steve