It’s Sunday early morning, and two women both by the name of Mary go to the tomb to check on the body of Jesus.
They get there and find something they weren’t expecting to see, or the words they didn’t remember from Jesus.
According to Matthew 28, they find an angel standing at the tomb. It’s as if he was waiting for them there. The Roman soldiers who were supposed to be guarding the tomb were in a frozen mode.
There you see the different types of witnesses about the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. The guards couldn’t say anything to the women or the angel, but just watch the unfolding of what we know of as Easter.
To the list of those witnesses, add yourself too. You now hear the story or may have read and heard about it before.
The Risen Lord meets you in Galilee
In verse 7, the angel says to the two Mary’s that they have to quickly go and tell the other disciples to meet with Jesus, the risen Lord, in Galilee.
Jesus wasn’t in the tomb, which is no longer the place where to find the Christ. Therefore, the women were looking for Jesus in the wrong place.
Galilee is the place where Jesus started his public ministry. It’s also the place where he called his first disciples to follow him.
Galilee means a place or places in your life too. Those moments in your life that describe the beginning of your faith journey.
We see the Risen Lord in the ordinary things of life
When you think of Galilee, what comes to mind are ordinary things of life. Galilee was a place for very ordinary people living simple lives. Most of the men caught fish for living.
Interestingly, Christ didn’t stay on the cross or in the tomb.
That was because Jesus wanted to meet with his disciples, including you and I, in Galilee. He wants to meet us in the very ordinary things of life.
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Bringing it altogether
Easter power resides in the fact that we experience God at work through the risen Lord as we go through our ordinary and everyday living. The risen Lord is present among us when we meet for prayer, Bible study, worship, or any other Church activity. But, we see the risen Christ in Galilee, in the ordinary things of our daily lives.
