Christ will come again!

Christ will come again!

“Don’t be alarmed,” he said.  “I know you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.  He is not here – he has been raised!  Look, here is the place where they put him.  Now go and give this message to his disciples, including Peter: ‘He is going to Galilee ahead of you:  there you will see him, just as he told you.’  So they went out and ran from the tomb, distressed and terrified.  They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid.”  (Mark 16: 6 – 8)

Paraphrasing what the angel said to the women:  ‘Don’t be afraid to see me here.  Don’t be surprised that the body of Jesus is not here.  He has been raised from the dead as he foretold.  Go and give the news to his disciples.’   Inspite of these assurances, the women were ‘distressed and terrified.”  They were ‘afraid.’  Why did they manifest this reaction instead of joy and a sense of triumph?  Is it possible that this development caught them unawares?  They forgot the message of Jesus that he would be crucified but would rise again on the third day.  

What message of Jesus are we in danger of forgetting today?  “Christ has died.  Christ is risen.  Christ will come again!”

“Now go and give this message to his disciples.”  “Christ has died.  Christ is risen.  Christ will come again!”