Sunday May 17 LIGHT

Faith – day – LIGHT; seeing dawn as resurrection |

The bright lights of human creation are usually multiple lamps or fires.  Their longevity does not match the needs of our feet or our path.  When the tomb is empty faith is seen relieving the women while the men seem to have lost their faith.

Hope – day – LIGHT; trusting illumination |

The arrival of life coincides with the babe of Bethlehem, but it is the death of the Lamb of God that opens the tombs of the sleeping saints.

50. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, (Mat 27:50-52)

Love – day – LIGHT; embracing warmth |

A lit lamp changes the environment. Before people realize what the light of each day means and before they can make a plan to make use of the light of day there is a subconscious affirmation of the light.

19. Now when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were together due to fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” 20. And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. (John 20:19-20)

Death – day – LIGHT; becoming dusk’s paradox |

10. It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. (Luke 24:10-11)

Who would have thought that life would stream from a dying man, and from a man condemned to die for crimes brought by religious people?  The darkness of the tomb leaps off the page as a perfect partner to light when Sunday arrives.  Christ was hurriedly buried at dusk and as soon as daylight arrived on Sunday the light was too much to believe.