“He Is Not Here; He Has
Risen!”
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
When
they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to
all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and
the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe
the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 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.
Luke 24:1-12
If
something looks or sounds too good to be true, it usually is not true. But in
this one case, what appeared to be too good to be true, actually was true, and
is true today. Our faith is based on the fact that Jesus Christ was crucified,
and on the third day He rose from the dead.
If
someone manipulated the evidence, then millions of people around the world
gather today to celebrate a myth. But if Jesus conquered death, then all He
said about forgiveness, power to change, and eternal life is real.
Because
Christ has risen and lives today, the news of His resurrection to save us from
our sins is too good not to be true.
The resurrection is a fact of history that demands a response of
faith.
Our Daily Bread –