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5-15-07: What Happened the Day After the Day that Changed the World |
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Once in a great while, something happens to us as individuals or as a group that changes everything forever. We remember that day: the day a baby was born or the day you were accepted to a college or a job; as a group it might be November 22, 1963 or more recently January 1, 2000, still more immediately September 11, 2001. Personally or together, we remember such dates.
The disciples were all thinking about the day Jesus was crucified. A few days later the word got around that he was risen from the dead. What happened the next day? That was the day that they came to grips with the fact that everything was different. The God of heaven was the creator of the unexpected and now, at the junction of surprise and doubt, the disciples had to learn who they were in relationship to this God who had called them privately and loved them personally.
Do you remember January 2, 2000? Do you remember September 12, 2001? Maybe not. Do you remember the day after you became a Christian? Those are the dates, good or bad, when we come to grips with the fact that something is different or new in our lives. Do you remember the day after the resurrection? At your junction of faith and doubt, of hope and surprise, today is the day after the resurrection.
Now we have to decide what to make of it. |
