EMPTY
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 01:25PM Empty is an interesting word. When I hear it I immediately think of the gas tank in my car or my stomach at about lunchtime. I hear people say they are running on empty and Jackson Browne did pretty well while “Running on Empty.” I know people who say their house feels empty now that the children are gone. The idea behind empty is that something is missing, something that should have been there is gone. Empty is not a good thing, …usually.
On the first Easter morning empty took on a whole new meaning.
“They (the women) found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.” Luke 24:2-3
The grave was empty so life, and death, would never be the same. That empty grave means that the promises of Jesus are true and that the forgiveness He brings is real. Because the grave could not hold Jesus it cannot hold us either. In the emptiness of that tomb we leave our past behind and discover a future securely ours in Jesus.
In most of life empty is a challenging thing, a missing of something we need, but on Easter morning the fact that the tomb is empty, really empty, is the best of all things.
“He is not here, he is risen.” Empty.
- Pastor Kevin
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Deep across the deep seas, far in the slum neighborhood of Guzape District-of a City called Abuja, the less privillaged children of school age [2yrs-12yrs] assembled under a tree -annexed by a bather saddle with a leaking roof to receive instructions both to enhance the SPIRITUAL & BASIC EDUCATION from their mentors.Some of these children had been seen to use stones to clean up their anus after passing out waste in the bush. These empty life certainly can not be gain.This is a Messidonian call for help