Just as He Said…

This morning I woke up wondering if God designed that we would need sleep everyday to remind us of the Resurrection of Jesus when we wake up. In ways that echo and provide a shadow in a sense of this event, the daily pattern of rise, live the day, sleep, wake again gives a picture of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. I wonder why do we have to lie down to sleep? Why didn’t God just design us to not need sleep in the first place?

But to wake up daily in the knowledge that, even if it’s hidden behind a line of clouds in a storm, or a hazy day fogged over with pollution, the sun will rise and light the day. In an odd sort’ve way, lying down nightly foretells the eventuality of the grave for all of us, but the morning renews the reality that we will live on beyond the darkness, beyond this life, beyond physical death.

And praise God for His provision that the life both here and beyond is intended to be full of Him, even in the brokenness and suffering of this world that is not ultimately our home, just like our beds are not ultimately the place we are to exist. The vastness and magnificence of the universe is meant primarily to display His glory that we might praise Him, and not ourselves, and awaken and surrender fully to the desires He originally intended for all of us to have to be in a relationship with the Creator.

So I praise God that I woke up today, that the sun also rose again, and today we can celebrate that the One who created everything also rose 2010 years ago and proved His defeat of death, sin, Satan, and even self so that we, as the first two women to see Him that first Easter morning did, would worship Him with all our life, in all we do. Just as the angel instructed them, so am I instructed to “come and see” that it is just as He said–He is not here, He has risen, just as He said–and then “go quickly and tell.”

So I will go eat some french toast now, watch some live Final Four streaming, and look forward to carrying out today’s assignments to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).

” So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31

If you’re reading this and don’t know this Jesus who is celebrated today, invite you to come and see, and consider Him who today we celebrate, and Who is not asleep, but alive and risen indeed. Just as He said….

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