This year at church we have been going through The Story. This week's chapter was about Jesus' resurrection. It is always an exciting part of the Bible for me to read. To Think that a man lived and died and then lived again seems unreal. Of course, many say that it is. The reality for me is, even when I have tried to pretend that God was not real or to somehow explain away some of the words in scripture, everything always ended up pointing back to him. Everything in my life is evidence of the truth that exists in the Scriptures. Jesus was and is REAL.
I love what my devotion says as it paints the picture of what it must have been like that weekend Jesus died, as the disciples learned the exciting news.
"A gentle whisper began to circulate of his triumph, yet it still seems impossible. It went against everything they knew. He had risen from the dead. His love was the glue that held the disciples together. In their wildest dreams, they could not imagine that Christ would overcome death with his love...The grave held our hearts, Our hopes, and our dreams. Love overcame death in a bloody war for our souls. His love proclaims that your soul is worth it."
I like to sometimes just sit with that reality. I like to ponder actually being there when it all went down. I cannot imagine what it would have been like. I can only imagine the energy that would've been resounding in that city and then very quickly to other towns, countries etc. I am so grateful to be alive in the day when Jesus has already come, but it would have been such an experience to be there when it all first happened. As they say, reality is stranger than fiction. I believe it.
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