Sunday: A Story of Christ

A great hope on Sunday morning. There are two accounts about what could have happened on that day. One is found in Matthew and one is found in John. If you want to read the version written by Matthew it is found in Matthew 28. It is a bit different than this account. I am going to retell the version of John. 

Days after they gently put him in the tomb. Mary Magdalene went to visit Christ. When she got there the tomb was empty. Her first initial thought was probably that their Savior's body had been stolen.  She quickly left to share the news with the disciples.

Then Simon Peter and John raced toward the tomb. There is a great painting by Lemon Liz Swindle called Hope. It portrays Simon and John running. In the painting you see John a bit ahead of Peter but in there faces the same mix of emotions: anxiety, doubt, worry, hope. If you look close enough you'll see tears streaming down their cheeks.

"What did they think as they ran? Were they simply curious to see for themselves? Did they fear, like Mary, that their enemies had stolen the body? Or did they remember His promise, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up?" -Lemon Liz Swindle

Well John got to the tomb first and others followed they saw he wasn’t there. The only thing they beheld was the linen neatly folded. They went off to talk.

Mary stayed and wept. She later saw angels. They asked her:

"Woman, why weepest thou?"

Then she saw a man behind her and he asked her the same question.

                                                          "Woman, why weepest thou?"

She told him that they had taken her Lord and she didn't not know where. She begged him to tell her where they had taken him. Then Jesus called her by name and she turned around and said:

Rabboni "Master"

He instructed her not to touch him because he still had not gone to his Father. He told her to tell the disciples. Later that evening he appears to them. He shows them the prints on his hands and sides.

The scriptures describes that THEY WERE GLAD when they saw HIM (John 20:20)

Can you Imagine?

Christ closest followers , friends, confidants, and even brothers seeing their Savior! Knowing that he kept his promise that HE would come back to them. IT IS A FEELING I LONG FOR!

Christ told them to have peace. A few days later he came back. Thomas had been doubting and then when he saw Christ, he believed. He instructed them and shared things that weren't written in the book.

However for this reason the accounts were written:

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name (John 20:31) 

So I ask you what Lemon Liz Swindle states at the end of her description of her painting. 

“The decision that faced Peter and John that Sunday

morning is the same decision that faces each one of us today.

Will we doubt? Will we hope? Or will we [just simply] know

that He lives?”

Sunday- A day of hope. Sunday- A day of joy. 

Sunday- He is Risen.