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When The Resurrection Becomes Routine

March 3, 2011

Mark 16:6

And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.”

There is something about this passage that has always gotten me. I LOVE the sense of triumph that I pick up in it.

“Oh you’re looking for Jesus?...yeah he’s not here. He got up. He left. He walked away.”

He was dead…but now he’s not.

Everything up to now was just promises that you didn’t know if He could fulfill…well guess what…

He did.

Its because of this passage that everything we believe became real. It is because of the fact that Jesus not only SAID he was going to rise from the dead after three days the whole time…but in fact he did.

Only JESUS could keep a promise after he had died.

I feel like the longer I walk with Jesus, the more normal this fact becomes. And in someways the “amazing-ness” of it wears off….

And the resurrection becomes routine.

And if THAT power becomes routine…what else does? What else do I cease to become amazed at?

His love for Me?

The depth from which I was saved?

His desire to work for His good through me?

I mean if I in my arrogance can allow the power of the greatest miracle in the history of the planet to become just another fact….

Truly my pride knows no bounds.

I want to stay amazed, completely shocked….at how incredible my saviour is…I want to be totally humbled by his power….

Because the resurrection is ANYTHING but routine….

Jesus I thank you that this morning you have taken away the routine-ness of the resurrection…that I find myself again amazed by the beauty of the power that you showed that day. Please keep my heart soft and humble, and may I never look upon the power of the cross as ordinary or routine….I want my heart to stay amazed by you.

B.

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