The earlier Christians, like us, experienced the struggle, but they knew how the fact of Jesus coming back from three days in the tomb meant every day of their life on this earth was a day framed and governed by His claim on life for His people.
The empty tomb delivers the grains of life that pollinate all good things so life in its fullest can blossom in our lives because Christ brought life back to us when He rose.
Reluctant as they undoubtedly were, the soldiers were the first witnesses who spread word that Jesus, who had been crucified, dead, and buried, was now alive and on the move.
This is the day that the Lord has made, and it is a day on which the Lord has called us to remember His goodness and to count on His continued blessing.
God has picked me out to be His own and to enjoy all the benefits of liberation from Satan’s domination and all the blessings of the peace of His presence.
Not only is “the Hidden God” marked by the “no trespassing” sign, God Hidden also points us to the God revealed in Jesus the Messiah and the Scriptures which bear witness to Him.
Time devoted to planning, to say nothing of prayer, pays-off in the long run many times over. If ever there was a vocation that need not be in a hurry, it is the cure of souls.
No Bible passage is so clear that we cannot twist it to conform our own presuppositions and prejudices. We do this because we fear the implications of what the text says.