There are many times when we forget or aren’t ready to hear about the resurrection. Remembering the promise of new life changes things. It changes how we look at events. It changes how we feel about things. It helps us get through grief, despair or crippling anxiety. It helps us look for the signs that things will work out. Re-membering is literally putting our members back together again in the right way.
The women at the Easter tomb had no idea that Jesus would rise again. They just saw an empty tomb and assumed the worst. They had to be reminded of what Jesus had told them, because it was so far out of their normal experience that they never dreamed that it would happen. They had probably never even heard his words. Most of us can’t take in what doesn’t fit in with our thinking or how we do things.
As we keep hearing the message of new life out of bad things, then we start to see that it works. We learn to hold on in the hard times. We learn to look for the way through that God is providing. The resurrection in real.
