Easter and Resurrection.... Just a few thoughts

So today is Tuesday. It's not just any Tuesday, but instead the Tuesday after Easter. The Tuesday after the day we celebrate the resurrection. As Christians we are a resurrection people. We are to celebrate the fact that the tomb is empty. Jesus was NO LONGER there. Jesus conquered death. It's a very beautiful story really. No one believed Him, no one trusted Him, no one knew what to really expect when He talked about His upcoming death. Whenever I hear the Easter story of the disciples and their coming to the tomb it always makes me think. It makes me think as to how this story affects me, and who I would have been in the story. The disciples were baffled as to how this could happen. They had no idea, how or why it did, even though time and time again Jesus told them what was going to happen. He told them everything that they would need to know. Literally, everything! But they didn't get it.

Mark 11:17-18 - " ¹⁷Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: "Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? ¹⁸Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear?"

We are a lot more like the disciples then we care to think. We are a lot like them. We have ears, but do not listen, we see the miracles of God, but refuse to understand. It gives me great hope that even the twelve closest followers of Jesus struggled. They saw and heard everything He was doing, and yet still struggled. But when it came to His resurrection and He came among them, then they believed. We are a resurrection people, the tomb was empty. The disciples were able to tell us that. Besides actually being there and seeing it for ourselves, we have the best view of it. Now we just have to believe in it.