How many devout women of today will rise early to seek out the Lord. To offer Him at the start of the day their gifts and talents to be used for their families and for others?
How many who find emptiness, who had forgotten the Lord Jesus in their lives have sought Him through prayer and in the Word? Having found Him rejoiced? Having experienced the Living God in their lives have found peace and lasting joy? Having experienced this in wonderment shared it with others? Prayed for others so that they too will share in the joy and peace?
How many still refuse to hear the Good News? Refuse to acknowledge the testimony of God’s glory witnessed by others?
How many like Peter in today’s Gospel, will run seeking the Lord out to witness to the Glory of God?
GOSPEL Luke 24:1–12
At daybreak on the first day of the week the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners and be crucified, and rise on the third day.” And they remembered his words. Then they returned from the tomb and announced all these things to the eleven and to all the others. The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James; the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles, but their story seemed like nonsense and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone; then he went home amazed at what had happened.
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