Today around the world many Christians will greet each other with the words “Christ is Risen” to which the respond will be “He is Risen Indeed!”
I wonder how the first disciples felt when they heard that Jesus’ tomb was empty and He was alive? We have an advantage over them in so much as we know that Easter Sunday follows Good Friday. However the first disciples did not realise that when Jesus was crucified. They thought that was the end. Their world was shattered. All their dreams destroyed.
When Mary Magdalene and the other women told the disciples what they had seen at the tomb, the disciples did not believe them. Jesus then appeared to them and they were terrified. Slowly it began to dawn on them that Christ had indeed risen as He revealed Himself to them. The joy, excitement, amazement, wonder they must have felt.
This Easter lets ask God that we might too experience these emotions. The resurrection of Jesus must not be something that we just believe in our minds. We want our hearts to be truly amazed and excited as we hear those wonderful words: He is Risen!
