There’s no need for spices. As the women make their way to finish preparing him for burial, Jesus had enough of death. From this Sunrise forward death would lose its ground and life would rise from the earth like it did when the First Adam rose up filled with the breath of God. Everything is new. Jesus is alive!
Read John 20
It all makes sense now. His reserved demeanor in the midst of “Hosanna!” his confrontational spirit, Judas, the disgrace of the Cross. He came to save. And if he came to save, he must have come to die that we might live with him. Today the disciples would complete their journey through Christ’s week of glory. They have passed from foolishness to fear and finally to faith. At the end Jesus told Thomas, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Read The Revelation 1:17-18 and, if you believe, fall down before your Savior.
Prayer
O my Lord, I am blessed. I have not seen, but I have watched you in your Word and seen your week of glory and I know now that you are alive. You have risen! Blessed is he who took my death that I might have his life. Blessed is he who bore my sins that I might wear his righteousness. Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord. Amen.
Prayer Prompts
Pray for joy worthy of Easter. Ask God why your heart is still so heavy.
Pray for the declaration of the Resurrection across the World. Pray that his elect would respond with faith.
Pray that the world itself would be made new its God’s time.
Pray that the resurrection life in you by God’s Spirit and your new birth would rise up and grow in grace.
Ask God to bring the life of Christ to your neighborhood, your workplace, your family, and your own heart.
