‘Remember what he said….the Son of Man must be crucified, and on the third day be raised again.’ Luke 24:7

By mmayer
Luke 24: 1-12

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord 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 over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.”’ Then they remembered his words.

When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

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.

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