“Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5) the angel asked the women who went to prepare Jesus’s body the day after His crucifiction. A question that summed up the greatest miracle ever seen.
The women – like the disciples – had heard Jesus’ teachings, had seen His miracles. They believed He was who He said He was (even if their version of that – the Messiah – probably didn’t match His).
They still went to the tomb expecting to find a corpse. I mean, they’d seen Him raise the dead before but raising Himself?! That took a whole other level of faith.
On that day their reality was dark.
Empty.
Black.
Every dream, every hope that had been awakened by Jesus shattered.
Their trust in God broken.
Death was the only reality.
I don’t know where you are in your life right now but I am pretty sure that more than one of you reading these words can identify with those women.
You love God. You trust God. You can look back and see the times that He clearly was working in your life. You can recall answered prayers. Lessons learned. Verses memorised. Worship songs sung.
Today though as you look around your life, circumstances and inside yourself, the reality is different. You see loss. Broken dreams. Unfufilled promises. Unanswered prayers. Doubt. Fear. Pain.
Maybe like me you are looking at one or more specific situations that, to be honest, are impossible. You know God invites you to bring all your needs to Him. You have indeed prayed about these situations. But inside you are like the women going to the tomb. You have – if you are brutally honest – no real belief that He can or will actually do what you are asking of Him.
I want you to consider for a moment: is the resolution to that situation REALLY more impossible than raising someone from the dead? Would it be a bigger miracle than the resurrection?
I didn’t think so.
Despite how impossible it is and how hard you are finding it to pray about it, I just want you to hold on to that fact. Sit before Him and acknowledge the impossibility of the situation but then also acknowledge that in the light of the resurrection, NOTHING is impossible for God.
Then leave it with Him.
We don’t need to understand it. It doesn’t matter that our human minds cannot conceive of any way in which that situation can be resolved. We just can’t imagine it so it seems impossible and so that leads us to be unable to believe the situation can be redeemed.
On Easter Sunday though, I remind myself of the impossible resurrection and say to my soul “all things ARE possible and I WILL trust in Him”.
A Woman Who Fears The Lord 