So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word. Matthew 28:8
We have read and heard this verse many times, especially at Easter. How often do we consider the conflict between those two emotions - fear and great joy? Those who had met the angel in the tomb might be able to better explain to us how both of these large feelings could exist in them at the same time. However, we might know ourselves from the thoughts of death we experience at funerals or during illness. For that pairing of emotions does explain how the believer in Christ approaches the tomb as well. We fear death in the flesh and yet at the same time feel the stirring of that great joy we have in Christ Jesus. Conflicting and complementary at once, by such feelings we see our state as both born fallen and born again redeemed.
Praise God that one will fall behind us soon!
Bucky
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