April 2014
(Note: Pastor's Pen is published on a monthly basis)
The Resurrection
And as they went to tell His disciples, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And
they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto
them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there
shall they see me.
Matthew 28:9-10
All that concerns our Lord after his resurrection is calm and happy. A French
writer calls the forty days on earth, “the life of Jesus Christ in glory”: truly
it was glory as full as earth could then bear. His tomb was empty, and
consequently the disciples grieves would have been over had they fully
understood what that vacant grave meant.
Then was their choicest time for living fellowship with their risen Lord, and he
did not fail to grant them the privilege on many memorable occasions. Since our
Lord is risen we also may have happy communion with him. These are days in which
we may expect him to manifest himself to us spiritually, as he did for the forty
days to the disciples corporeally. Let us not be satisfied unless it is often
said of us “Jesus met them.”
In the way of service Jesus meets us. “As they went to tell his disciples,
behold, Jesus met them.” He may come at other times, as he did to those who
visited the sepulcher, to those walking out to Emmaus, to others fishing, and to
the eleven assembled in a hidden place. He is likeliest to come when we are
doing his work since: we are then most awake, and most able to see him. We are
then in special need of him. We are then most in accord with him. But come when
Jesus may, it will be a blessed visitation, worthy to be prefaced by a “Behold”
O that He would come! (Taken from C.H. Spurgeons notes) Let us look for Jesus
return any day now.
Love and prayers,
~ Pastor Roberts
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