Thoughts for another day

April 23, 2014.

Today's verse:  Acts 2:24. Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

The other day, I was speaking to my daughter and trying to make real the Resurrection of the Lord so she could visualize what happened at that precise moment when the power of God, burst upon the tomb in which Jesus lay lifeless on the cold floor, just the way a man would lie after he is buried.  I told her, how God’s power started shaking the grains of mud in the tomb and then Jesus’ body gently quivered as the power entered Him and He got up in a split second.  Then, the stone which had sealed the grave was pushed away to make way for the resurrected Lord to move out, which also I believe was more for them to enter the tomb to see it empty than for Jesus to come out knowing as we do that He, with His glorified body, could move in and out of solid spaces.

As I look at our Word today, the above holds me, particularly when I read, ‘it was not possible for death to keep its hold on Him.’  What a marvelous statement we have in our Word and we must remember that just as death has no power over the Lord, it has no power on us too because of Him.  And just as death has no power over Him, no other thing has power over Him; and so too with us because He has put on us the cloak of invincibility which we accepted when we believed in Him, acknowledging Him as our Lord and Master.

In this Easter season, if there’s one thing we must hold deep in our hearts it’s the fact of the total control God has over all things.  God was in control even as Jesus was murdered cruelly after being scourged in the most inhuman manner; so too, God is in control as we move about our lives.  See, God will never bring us to the door of harm because His Son went through that door on our behalf.  In every situation we find ourselves in, we must accept God’s control and there’s no way defeat or death can have any hold over us for after all, they have to contend with God, before they can even come near to us.