He is Risen!
A Pilgrimage to the Cross
Walking through Lent with Jesus
Easter Sunday
April 24th
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!
Luke 24: 1-7
Luke began his gospel with women, and with the story of their impossible conceptions. Here we come to the tomb with women again, only to find the impossible has happened again- the place of death has become a place of life, the tomb of sorrow has become a garden of hope, the soldiers have gone, replaced by men in clothes that gleamed like lightning.
The pilgrimage becomes less about where we have come from, but about where we will go next. On Easter Sunday, we realise that the Cross is not a destination, but a ticket to ride, a passport to a new country, power for the journey into a new future.
He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
Luke 24: 46-49
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