Risen
This week a friend sent me a photo of the headstone that has been placed on her late husband's grave. It was a simple stone, not quarried, and the wording was simple, but the stone, although basically rectangular, had a rounded feel around the edges and I went goosebumps when I saw it because I immediately thought about the "stone that was rolled away!"
Death is not permanent. The grave will not hold us,
because it could not hold Him!
The tomb is empty, the stone is rolled away.
My 2000 year old snapshot is a stone rolled away from a garden tomb with baffled women and disciples peering inside. My current snapshot is the headstone of a faithful servant of God who we buried in the solid hope and profound comfort that death is a defeated bully.
FLASHBULB: The stone rolled away - not because Jesus was stuck inside (He appeared to the disciples behind locked doors) - but because we needed to know that HE HAS WON!
| 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. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. (Luke24:1-3) |
