Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“IGNORANCE AT THE TOMB”

Despite Christ’s continual teaching on His death and Resurrection prior to his death and Resurrection, John and Peter were living in ignorance once they visited the tomb where the body of Christ was missing, and the stone was rolled away. In Matthew’s Gospel, Christ speaks it very clearly to them. Matthew 17:22, 23—”²² And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: ²³ And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.”

John and Peter’s ignorance led to confusion. Far too often, we Christian’s live our life as if Christ is not alive. We live as if He is missing! When we see the world crumbling around us, it wrecks us. Just like John, Peter, and the two Mary’s, we let the weight of the present circumstance, mingled with ignorance, just simply rock us to the core. We often treat our current situation as the final outcome of our lives.

The unsaved world around us lives in total ignorance of the empty tomb as well. This ignorance is partly due to true ignorance. Some of this ignorance can be laid at the feet of us Christians. Our job is to canvas the world with the glorious gospel of Christ. The grief that unsaved people endure when they lose their loved ones is unparallel. They have no hope. Even if their loved ones that died were saved, they themselves are not, therefore, they have no hope of seeing them again.

As Christians, may we know the scripture! May we know and be reminded that we have eternal hope in any situation that we face in this life, all because of the empty tomb. Apostle Paul reminds us to not be ignorant concerning those who we have lost who died in Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:13.) Ignorance within our faith is not bliss! We have a book, and it has been tested and tried; The entirety of our faith rests on the crystal-clear reality that the tomb of Christ is empty! He is Alive!

John 20:9—11 “⁹ For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. ¹⁰ Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. ¹¹ But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept”