Wednesday's thoughts

In trying to understand the meaning of Easter we really have to look at the impact of resurrection more than the facts of the story. It isn't helpful to try to explain Easter. The reading in the 28th chapter of Matthew makes it clear they were trying to explain how Jesus, who was crucified, could rise from the dead. The obvious explanation was that the disciples took the body. The Romans posted guards at the tomb. There was an earthquake. The guards ran away. They were paid by the Roman government to say the disciples came and took the body.

If you look at the Biblical accounts there is no easy answer as to what happened. The first witnesses really didn't understand it any better than the Roman government as they tried to squelch it. It may to true that the Roman government understood it better than the early witnesses who were Jesus' followers.

I think it basically comes down to this; What they thought was dead and buried was alive and well. What they imagined to be irreversible was reversed.

It was put into their mind that once upon a time something happened that seemed impossible. What could they do with that? What would that open up in terms of a meaning or a message?

What happens to our view of life if we begin to think that the impossible of possible? How does that change the way we think; the way we act; the way we live?

I think it makes a big difference. I think it makes all the difference in the world.

What do you think?

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Charles Schuster