Easter Saturday 11th April Message
Dear Reader
This is the point in Holy week where Jesus along with his disciples and their hopes, expectations and claims finally hit the buffers. Jesus now dead and locked in (entombed) and the disciples isolated and dejected, the story ends.
To make sure this troublesome upstart, Jesus, doesn’t cause more bother after his death, the authorities guard the tomb.
How bleak, dark and hopeless everything must have seemed. Frightened for the future, perhaps regretting the past, what now for those who joined in following the man who gave them hope and promise?
Well, it all seemed to be the end but we know it wasn’t and isn’t. The followers of Jesus at the time were, as we can imagine, as down as down can be. They did not know what lay ahead.
We too can be, and often are, disappointed, dejected, depressed and frightened in our daily living. Not everything turns out the way we would like and sometimes there is that fearful feeling of impending gloom and doom. It was what happened next that changed and changes all of that.
Today I ask you to think/meditate on these things.
God Bless!
Jim
MATTHEW 27: 62-66
The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate.“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”
“Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.”So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
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