This is the moment above all else where it is impossible to pretend you are reading the Bible for the first time. Jesus is sentenced to death ... DISASTER! But don't worry, just around the corner is ... Jesus comes back to life ... TRIUMPH!
How to read the first without thinking of the second?
All sorts of people have tried, a famous recent attempt was Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ where the resurrection is just barely hinted at in the last scene of the film, and all the attention is on the agony and horror of the crucifixion. I spoke about this in my post on 9 November.
Day 314: Trial before Pilate
As I reflected on the joy of the resurrection, I thought about the struggle of living a life of faith when most of the time it doesn't feel like it's all true. Do we struggle to believe against the odds, desperately remembering the flash of light that one lit up our lives and showed us the landscape clearly? Or do we instead cultivate the belief that God is inside us, patiently working in the dark, growing the tender shoots of righteousness and peace into the soil of our lives?
Day 317: Jesus appears to many
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never understood it.
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