Whom Do You Seek - EasterSample

How we are feeling can often determine what we say or what we do. It’s a lot easier to stay silent when feeling down or chitter away when we are filled with glee. After Jesus died, can you imagine the grief and disappointment weighing down the hearts of those around him?

When Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome reach the tomb with their spices to anoint Jesus, they are turned from being downcast and sad to astonishment and wonder. It takes a while for the truth to sink in, but understanding slowly dawns. They find a young man sitting in the empty tomb! When he speaks, his words are empathetic to their state of surprise and alarm. He calmly and gently reminds them what Jesus said would happen all along (Mark 9:31); “He has risen! He is not here.”

The women are then entrusted with a crucially important task of telling the disciples this news. At first, they don’t say a word out of fear and bewilderment! Everything they knew about death — its finality, its pain, its hopelessness — had been upended! Indeed, all the world thought about death was turned on its head.

No matter how we are feeling, in Jesus’ resurrection, death does not have the final word, its sting of pain is gone — we have a hope restored.

Today, ponder this: How are you feeling today? Whatever that may be, how does the good news of the gospel affect that?