Today's Devotional Thought March 27, 2016 by Rachel Piferi
Arise My Love
It is Easter Sunday. And while I normally would be at church celebrating Jesus' resurrection with my church family, today my youngest is sick. So, the two of us are home. She is sleeping and my house is quiet.
As a family of 5, my house is not often quiet.
And this Easter morning, as my house sits quiet, my mind is wandering to that original Easter morning and what it must have been like in those quiet moments before Jesus arose.
Can't you imagine it?
As I feel the stillness in my house this morning, I can almost imagine the stillness around the tomb that held Jesus' body that original Easter morning. As the guards stood outside, the mood was likely still, uneventful, calm. I can almost feel the quiet of the night and early morning after so much activity of the days before it.
Quiet.
Uneventful.
Hushed.
Sad.
The stillness before that moment when He would prove that He was God.
And then, can you imagine that moment, that one glorious moment, when the gentle stillness was replaced with a glorious awakening?
What must it have been like?
One minute, Jesus body laid still. And the next, He awoke.
In One. Single. Moment.
Dead.
Then alive.
Oh to know the fullness of that moment. When still death was transformed into glorious resurrection. As I thought about it this morning, my heart was overwhelmed. Oh the magnitude of that moment. In that one single moment, our lives were changed forever as His powerful resurrection meant we were invited to have hope. To claim victory. To live in power. To say to death, "You have lost your sting."
Jesus has risen.
And with Him, I have arisen from death too. The empty grave means so much to me and gives me so much hope in every dead situation. In one single moment when death was transformed into life, we were given hope, power, and victory over the death and hopeless peril of this world.
The power of that moment goes with me into every situation of my life. And in that moment, I have been invited to live in that power forever.
We will live eternally with Him and can live in victory from this very moment because of that glorious moment in the dark of the tomb when God said to His Son, "Arise!"
I pray that you all have a wonderful Easter. I pray that you linger a bit in the importance of that moment when God transformed death to life. And how He has transformed you from death to life too because of that one love-filled, powerful moment.
He has risen friends. Our Lord has risen.
Rise with Him. And live. In hope. In power. In victory.
December