Psalm 31.1-4, 15-16 Psaume 31.1-4, 15-16
Job 14.1-14 Job 14.1-14
1 Peter 4.1-8 1 Pierre 4.1-8
Peter Paul Rubens, The Entombment (about 1612), Getty Center
Dead.
Today is a busy day, with much getting ready for tomorrow.
Even in the church, flowers are being put in place and all the beautiful things that were removed on Thursday are being replaced.
But we should pause for a while today to remember that this is the day that Jesus lay in the tomb.
Dead.
Tomorrow will be day of celebration, but today is about remembering the reality of Jesus death. Matthew underlines it. Jesus’ body; a tomb; a stone; the place watched by two Marys and, we are told a few verses later, by guards.
Jesus was dead.
Tomorrow we shall sing ‘Jesus Christ is risen today’ – but not today.
Today we can remember that Jesus identification with us in every way ‘yet without sin’ brings him even to the grave.
He shared our life and he shares our death...until the dawn when we may say with the poet George Herbert:
Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise without delayes,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise with him mayst rise:
Demain, nous proclamerons la résurrection.
Mais aujourd’hui nous réfléchissons à l’enterrement de notre Seigneur, qui a partagé entièrement nos vies jusqu’au tombeau.
Que nos cœurs soient bénis par la connaissance de la magnitude de son amour pour nous.
John Wilkinson
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