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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Easter Meditation

This morning’s lesson is a familiar one. We read a version of it each and every Easter Sunday - the angel appearing to the women at the tomb. The women come to the tomb to keep vigil, to grieve. The one whom they dearly love has died. They go to the tomb to tend to the dead.

And then something unexpected happens. The earth begins to shake and the rock sealing the tomb shut is rolled away. I love what the angel says in this passage “Do not be afraid” or in the Message Translation “There is nothing here to fear.” Any time an angel says that there is of course something to fear. The women have encountered the glory of God. They are standing on holy ground.

For the one whom they came to tend to, the one whom they came to grieve isn’t there. There is no body to prepare. For he is risen! Not only is he alive, but they actually see him, in the flesh as he greets them. And when they saw this all they could do is worship him.

The women worshipped him simply because he was risen. Simply because they loved him. We too are called to worship him here in this place, on this day, and each and every day of our lives. Because we know that through his death and life, we have life eternal. We know that we have victory over the grave.

Some of us may have come here this morning grieving. Grieving a life that hasn’t gone as we have expected. Or the death of a loved one. Know that whatever we face in the present, we have a hope to come. No matter where we find ourselves this morning, we are called to worship a risen savior. Hear the Good news. He is not here, he has been risen! And so shall it be with us.


Praise our Lord! Christ is risen! And we share in his victory over the grave! Amen!

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