The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 225
He Is Risen
Luke 24:1-12 – Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? “He is not here but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, “saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ” And they remembered His words. Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles. And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them. But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
Jesus, the Christ of God/Messiah
What a blessed privilege to read and believe the gospel accounts of the Risen LORD. I rejoice with tears of gladness, and I hope you do as well. My soul races back and my mind’s eye envisions that Sunday morning. Oh, I do not literally see that day, but I do see the perplexity of confusion and the joy of realizing that Jesus is alive again. As I have said a time or two before, “human words do not completely explain the gospel of Truth from our Eternal Creator.” I believe that the apostle Paul captures this thought in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 far better than I can explain it!
And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be (rest) in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
The earth quakes, angels appear, soldiers fall to the ground like dead men! This is NO SMALL EVENT, but Jerusalem sleeps during this early morning event and Jesus is risen from the dead, He is alive again. In John’s gospel, we read these words. And Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” What a wonderful moment of recognition. “Mary!” “Rabboni!”
The events of that Sunday morning more than two thousand years ago still ring loud and clear today; Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever, it is just as the writer of Hebrews writes in verse 8 of chapter 13, thus ‘do not be carried away by any strange or other doctrine, for it is GOOD for our hearts to be established in the GRACE of God and not with the foods of false doctrines.
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