Sunday Was Coming

Hello internet world! It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here. My intentions have been great, but life has trumped them. I’ve recently been crafting a blog post completely unrelated to what I’m posting now, but my thoughts tonight were just too overwhelming not to share…

Bob Goff posted this: “Holy Day Week 5: Darkness fell, His friends scattered, death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three… no tomb could contain what love was about to release.”

2000 years ago my Savior laid dead inside a tomb. Just let that sink in for a moment.

He. Was. Dead.

I went to the roof of DeMoss (Liberty’s main academic building) tonight to watch the sunset and I wondered what the sky looked like 2000 years ago as Jesus’ body laid lifeless in the tomb.

He laid lifeless 2000 years ago. Can you imagine if the story stopped there? He died, bearing the weight of the world on His shoulders and pain we can’t even imagine in His body. As the blood fell from His head…His hands…His feet…His side…

He thought of me. Of you. Our names and our shame labeled the blood He shed.

“It is finished.”

He spoke these words to seal His mission. He took one final breath and our sins were wiped clean. He was buried.

Lifeless.

But His purpose was so much more than just a sacrificial death.

He died so we could live. He rose again so we’d have a reason to.

Before I was born – before you were born – God ordained all of our days (Psalm 139:16) and He had a plan for us (Jeremiah 29:11). When sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, those days and those plans still remained. God still had a specific purpose for each of us to be born. God completes what He starts (Philippians 1:6), so the days and the plans would see their completion… but not without Him. Us, a fallen and corrupted people, need Him to guide us. So he sent Jesus to make a bridge between us. He sent Him to die, to cover our sins with His blood.

If Jesus had stayed dead, the enemy would have won. Our lives would be empty. But praise the Lord that instead of empty lives, there is an empty grave!

I’m so thankful that Jesus not only died the horrendous death I deserve to die myself, but that He also rose again to give me hope and purpose.

I’d like to think that 2000 years ago the sky looked similar to tonight’s, even though darkness surely surrounded the Earth. Can’t you just picture the picturesque scene if the sunset above Jesus’ tomb?

Happy Easter! #Easter2017