So the women went looking for the body of Jesus in the tomb, after his death. It had been quite a disastrous thing that happened to them. All their hopes, dreams, ambitions and object of affection had gone down in the grave with Jesus. He was everything to them and much more and it was all gone. When things happen they often have a way of becoming part of people's lives so much that they expect it to be so always. We get used to being in a certain situation and before long that can become the norm in our life and we start to not look for anything else. It was like that with those women early in the morning. They had resigned themselves to what seemed to be the inevitable. That everything was lost and it would never be any different. They went looking for what their minds had come to expect. What a surprise it must have been when they found something totally different. The rolled away stone revealed an empty grave and the two men that stood there said, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!"
Theirs had been a natural reaction, for the mind can get conditioned to only expect certain things and needs to be cultivated to receive what it doesn't know. When the others were told these things they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense (Luke 24:11). Jesus confounded everybody though by doing what nobody had expected and thereby showing us that God has not resigned himself to what we humans have come to see as the inevitable in our lives. Now isn't this something to sing, shout and dance about?
Happy Easter!!!!!
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