New Life and the Grace of God
Easter | John 20:1-18
Halleluiah! He is risen!
We say it that way: he is risen. And many of us respond naturally, The Lord is risen indeed. Hallelujah! We’ve been trained. But the words, he is risen denote that Jesus is the object, the beneficiary of the divine act. The act is raising Jesus from among the dead. He isn’t waking up on his own accord, friends. He has been raised by someone. And we know that someone is God.
This always evokes conversations of trinitarian theology that few really want to have on Easter. But I want to highlight this relationship of Jesus to being raised and that this highlights a relationship between Jesus and the one who raised him from the dead. That this is, and continues to be, a story of relationship.
Just like the relationship Mary has to the other disciples and to Jesus. And even the relationship she assumes is present between these strangers who she believes have acted upon the body of Jesus in the tomb. It is all action and relationship, my friends.
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