He is not here for He is RISEN..............

 Luke 24:5-6;

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? ⁶ He is not here; he has risen!

This is the actual tomb where they say Jesus' body had been laid to rest..........The bars you see are to keep people from worshipping the empty tomb.....or becoming our golden calf....

Saturday's will come and go.....some noted with the pain..........the kind of pain that grieves the heart......We have all experienced some type of pain that the death can bring.... Jesus suffered much..............He suffered His whole life......even as a child He had to be hidden in Egypt.....He wept over the death of His friend.....Lazarus............the grief He had and has over Israel.........................He sweated blood while praying in the garden of Gethsemane........he screamed out as He hung on the cross.................suffering.........do we really understand the suffering

Sometimes the pain is used by God to purify us.

Peter even told us that suffering refines our hearts......like fire refines gold........

Paul reached the climax of the whole process with one word.........HOPE

Revelation 1:8;

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”


Revelation 21:6;

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

May your weekend be one of blessed Hope.....................

"Hope by it's very nature captivates both our hearts and heads. It evokes deep emotions. It moves in and makes itself at home in our souls. It takes up residence at the very core of who we are. That is why it is so vital that we begin to place our hope in the Lord."  -Adam R. Holz

Let us not forget what Jesus went through with the pain and sufferings and how.....He came out on the other side to give us HOPE....
May we all take some time the weekend to realize.....................that Jesus' love is our HOPE.....for today and forever......even if we grieve.....we still have the blessed HOPE.
all of hope,
Robbie