A Reminder for Forgetful People (Easter Sunday) – Luke chapter 24 verses 1 to 8
Hopes shattered
Failed expectations lead to despair, and memory goes out the window. Verses 1 to 3.
Wondering
They were baffled and confused, just like us. “Wrong way, Go Back!” they are told. A graveyard is no place for the living. Verses 4 and 5.
This changes everything!
“He is not here, He is risen! Remember how He told you…” Jesus’ resurrection changes everything! Verses 6 and 7.
Then they remembered
Feeling hopeless, perplexed by life, disillusioned, afraid? Jesus appeared to all these people, and still does. Why not you too?
28 ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
Jesus has risen
24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 “The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.”’ 8 Then they remembered his words.
Luke 24:1-8 New International Version – UK (NIVUK) Holy Bible, New International Version® Anglicized, NIV® Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
