After Easter
April 5, 2021
How did Jesus’ contemporaries respond in those first days after his resurrection? Mary Magdalene and Mary went to look at the tomb, compelled to be near the man they loved and knew to be their Messiah.
They were rewarded. An angel met them, announced Jesus’ resurrection and told them to go quickly and report the good news. I imagine these two women ran with a lightness of step and speed they had never experienced before. Jesus intercepted them. They clasped his feet worshipped and were given more specific instructions for his brothers. Matthew 28.
Today some respond in the same way. We believe He rose and we worship him though not face to face. Yet. I trust, dear friend, that is your experience today.