Good morning, Lord Jesus. Grounded in Your Word, filled with Your Spirit, I want to begin my day in communion and alignment with You. ...
“So (the women) went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word. And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, ‘Rejoice!’ So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. Go tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me!’” (Matthew 28:8-10)
Jesus, When You met the women outside the empty tomb, You told them two things: “Rejoice!” and “Go!”
When you encountered each of us Easter Sunday, you spoke the same words to us “Rejoise”, now “Go”!
At Easter we rejoiced! We came together in churches and shouted “Hallelujah! We gathered with family and friends, feasted, had Easter egg hunts, took photos and celebrated Jesus’ resurrection. It is so hard to believe that we are almost in Lent again and Easter Sunday is again just around the corner! For this past year since we rejoiced and celebrated last Easter, we were called to Go!
The level of our faith and declaration that “Jesus is Lord” is not measured by how high we can jump and shout “Hallelujah!” in a sanctuary on Easter Sundays, but how low we we are willing to stoop to embrace those that are hurting and do not know Christ in our neighborhoods in the year between Easter Sundays. Our rejoicing in the personal knowledge and the collective knowledge of our churches on Easter that that Jesus died for our sins, rose again, freed us and gave us eternal life has absolutely no impact on our communities unless we go and share that knowledge with them. The light of the risen Christ that burns now in each of us as light-bearers has no impact on the darkness in the world if we simply gather with other light-bearers, we need to run into the darkness with our light.
So yes daily we will continue to “Rejoice” together, high-five each other and declare “He is Risen!!” However, after we high five lets “Go” out into our communities and embrace our neighbors and co-workers and share with them why we are rejoicing, that He is risen, who the “He” is, and what that Good News means to them, in Jesus’ name!
My family, I pray you will be filled today with the joy of Jesus’ resurrection and then be sent out today rejoicing to go share this Good News with others. Please pray the same for me. God bless you my friends! (He Has! Now Go bless others!)
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