Christ is Risen!!!

Christ is Risen by Matt Maher

This past week I have been thinking a lot about Jesus rising from the dead, and the way the different Gospel writers recount this miraculous event. I especially love the way Luke writes in this passage. He starts out by telling how two women go to the tomb with spices for what they would would be the body of Jesus. When they showed up, the stone blocking his tomb was roled away, and there were two men standing there who gleamed like lightening. These two guys (angels perhaps) asked the women, “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. (Luke 24:1-12).

In reading the resurrection account in the 4 Gospels, I am struck by how long it takes each person to realize they are speaking with Jesus, or to remember the words of Jesus, or to realize the truth about Jesus.  And as much as I kind of like to make fun of the Bible characters because Jesus repeats himself SO many times, and they still don’t get it….I am stopped.  Because I think of myself, and think of how many times Jesus is telling me the same thing over and over and over again…and how at times I still don’t get it.  Easter Sunday is an incredible day of celebration, and an opportunity for people of all backgrounds to enter into the church.  And I think of how each year we hear the exact same story, the same words, the same incredible truth, HE IS RISEN!

Jessica told me about how, in the Eastern Orthodox church, they sing a hymn on repeat–through communion, through litany, as they march around the church three times in the middle of the night (symbolizing the three days that Jesus was in the tomb.)  It’s one simple, meaningful, theologically correct line:

“Christ is risen from the dead trampling down death by death, and to those in the tombs, granting life.”

Christos Anesti!  Alithos Anesti!–He is Risen!  He is risen indeed!

I pray that this year, this Easter, these words and truths would become SO true to you and your life, and that the actions of Jesus Christ 2000ish years ago today, would transform your life.  I pray that He would become your Lord and Savior, and you would know that God is Truth.  Peace. LOVE.

He is Risen indeed!

Love, Mycah

 

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Posted by mycahburns on March 30, 2013 in Uncategorized