Read: Matthew 28.1- 8
The accounts of the resurrection vary in detail in each
Gospel. Mark has a “young man” announcing the news that Jesus has been raised,
Luke has two men in “dazzling clothes”, but here in Matthew there is one
person, identified as an angel, who descends from heaven, rolls back the stone
and sits on it, waiting for those to whom he will deliver his message. No
wonder the guards faint from fright.
The angel tells the women who find the empty tomb not to be
afraid, and sends them back to the rest of the disciples with a message of
their own. In a sense, they become the angels – the messengers – to their
brothers and sisters as they spread the news.
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Have you
ever been entrusted with an important message? What was it and how was it
received? Was it joyful or painful for the recipient to hear? Did those who
needed to hear it listen?
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The
angel’s announcement is that that Jesus had been raised. Life had conquered
death. Do you need to hear a life-giving message today? Are there places in you
which feel dead?
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The women
needed to go to the tomb, the place of death, to hear the message of life.
Where might you need to go?
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