HE WILL RETURN!

Today is the day....many hundreds of years ago....and still today......the day the world waited for God to reveal himself.  We can celebrate tomorrow because the history of the ancients tells us that tomorrow is the day that Christ re-revealed himself.  Friday was his crucifixion day and the day he was buried.  Saturday was the day they mourned...and today we await in quiet reflection, for we know from history's story that tomorrow Christ will rise again.


We know He rose on Sunday, because on Sunday His tomb was empty. Even the cloths that had covered Him were folded neatly and left behind.  Peter and John had rushed to the tomb after Mary Magdalene had found the tomb empty and had run to tell them.  They, too, found nothing there, no sign of Jesus, nothing to identify, nothing to prove to the world that He was the Son of God.


Mary Magdalene thought she knew him, and she thought..maybe...she had seen him yet that morning in the garden.  But...was it a dream?...He was no longer there.  Who might have carried him away?  Her heart was heavy at the loss of the one who had loved them so very much, no matter who or what they had been....he had loved them all.  No one but just their few had known of his complete love.....and of his power.


Why did they not understand?  Why did they not accept Him?  Why did they not see  that He was their Messiah?  He did not come to make war.  He came to love them and heal them, and even to know them and forgive them. Ahhhh!  Perhaps that is it.  It is so hard to become aware that we need to be forgiven!  Perhaps we can only be touched by Jesus when we become aware that we need His forgiveness.  Like I did...like I do.  I shall always need His forgiveness and I shall always accept His promise of new life in Him.  Always!


I hope He comes back!  He promised He would be back!  Wait!  I remember now!  He promised to be with me.  He promised He would always be with me. Are you here with me now, Lord? Are you?        Are you, really with me?  I believe you are.  Or you soon will be.  And all I must do is to believe....no matter what! I believe!  I believe!  I believe!


And I, too, Believe.  Won't you tell someone today that you believe?


Jo INMN