Luke 24:1-12 - Welcome to Resurrection Day!

No doubt you have spent the week mulling over the betrayal, the arrest, the torture, death, and burial of Christ. I never want to take away from the importance of that, but that's not for today.

Today we trade in the ashes and sackcloth of mourning and loss for the bright clothing of celebration and glory.

Our Christ is not murdered and buried. He is not lost to us. Instead, He has shown us that death is nothing to our God. It is like the gate to His front garden: a door through which He can walk back and forth at will.

While this was also illustrated by Lazarus and others before him, it was never as clearly shown as by Christ's return.

Why do you look for the living among the dead? Raise your eyes, brighten your countenance. Join the footrace back to the empty tomb (which allegedly John ran also and won).

It's for the daily joy of a consecrated life in the very present Kingdom.

Happy Resurrection Day!