Notes From Pastor Anthony’s Desk;
Luke 24:5-6
Why seek ye the living among
the dead? He is not here, but is risen:
That is the words that were uttered from the mouth of one of
the Angels that were present at the tomb that was the temporary holding place
for Jesus, when Mary and a few of her friends had come on that marvelous
resurrection morning to put the finishing touches on our saviors burial. How those 15 words must have transformed a
very sad and depressing day into one that was full of rejoicing and praise. To
put the words of the Angel in a nut shell, he was informing the women that they
had come to a place of death to look for life, they
had come to a place full of bones of the past in search of their future. The
Angel goes on and asks them if they didn't remember how Jesus promised that He
would rise from the grave? I believe he was a little astonished that they had
even come to finish the burial when they should be coming to take Him home.
The vast majority of us would like to think that if we had
been there when all this stuff took place that we would do things a little
different. We wouldn't have left Him at the cross like some of the disciples did, we would have been waiting right at the tomb
anticipating His resurrection that glorious morning. But sometimes I think that is just a bunch of
wishful thinking on our part. Sure we would like to think that we would make a
difference but the truth is that for the most part we would be coming to the
grave yard to look for one that was dead, not one that had risen as He
promised.
In a way we see people still looking for life among the dead
so to speak. All around us we find people that are trying to fill their lives
with empty pleasures, things that are like the grass of the field soon to
wither and blow away. “If only I could have a nicer car, a bigger home, a
better job, a bigger church.” The list goes on and on. But the truth is that
you will never find true happiness until you find the resurrected Christ. Until
you accept Jesus as your Lord and savior you are just going through life
searching a grave yard for something to give you a better life. But the fact still remains that you can look in all the worldly bone yards
that the devil offers you and find exactly what the women found that day
in
In my prayers - Brother Anthony
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