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Saturday, April 27, 2019
We Live In that Day!
Isaiah 25:9
The first Easter Sunday wasn’t the bright and sunny affair that it is today – at least, not at first. The women
walk to the tomb that Easter morning in the haze of Friday’s darkness, faced with the grim task of finishing
Jesus’ burial. The disciples are confused and afraid. Judas is dead. The attitude of the disciples on the way to
Emmaus sums it up, “We had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.” (Lk. 23:21) Jesus had
made some grand promises. He seemed to be the culmination of God’s promises to all of Israel! They were so
sure that they lived in the day of which Isaiah spoke in Isaiah 25:9. But a seemingly dead Jesus only made fools of
them.
However, for as gloomy as that day started it, turned out to be the day of God’s salvation. You remember the
rest of the story. The women would find an empty tomb and later a risen Jesus! The disciples would gather in
fear but find peace in a Jesus who appeared to them! The disciples on the way to Emmaus would find that the
man they talked to on the road was none other than Jesus himself! Jesus had risen just as he said, and that
changed everything. As Isaiah wrote, “Surely this is our God, we trusted in him, and he saved us.” The gloom of
that first Easter morning gave way to gladness as they saw that they lived in that day – the day of God’s
salvation. God had kept his promise.
We live our lives on the promises of God. We drive to work in the security of God’s promises to send his angels
to protect and to be with us Himself. We comfort our consciences in the peace of the cross and the payment
made for our sins there. We face death with the confidence that just as Jesus rose, so will we. But our sinful
nature makes cowards of us. Wherever there is a promise of God, there our sinful nature finds a way to work
doubt. To work in us a fear that we’ll see the day when we regret putting our trust in him.
But in those times remember – we live in THAT day. The day Isaiah spoke about. The day of the empty tomb
and a risen Jesus. The day marked by the fact that God does what he promises. He lived, died, and rose for
us. All to keep the promises he made. And He lives to continue to keep those promises to us for the rest of time.
PRAYER: Risen Savior, you came in fulfillment of your promise. You lived, died, and rose in fulfillment of
your promise. And you will come again in fulfillment of your promise. Lead us to live our lives in the shelter of
your promises. Amen.
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