A risen Saviour

“In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen!’” Luke 24:5-6
We can only imagine the waves of emotion that were sweeping over the disciples and the women who were following, on this morning. Three days after Jesus was crucified, and definitely dead, they had had time to dwell on what it meant for their future. The women decided to go to the tomb with spices so that they might properly embalm His body, since they had not had the time to before with it being Passover. They had resigned themselves to the fact that He was dead. But then, they were greeted by angels at the tomb, who appeared in human form, and told them that Jesus had risen from the dead. It must have sounded too good to be true – yet true it was, and the rest is history.
The words of the angels reach to us today: ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead?’ People are searching for meaning in life, and for someone to give them that spiritual guidance they are hungering for. The tombs of Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius, Joseph Smith and others have one thing in common: they are still occupied. There is only one person who has conquered death and can save us: Jesus Christ. Today, Easter Sunday, we remember His resurrection. The resurrection proves that He is who He said He is – the Son of God, the Saviour of all who would come to Him in faith.