After Resurrection

John 20:19-20

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

It's been three years since I last posted on this blog.  It's amazing my last entry was the day after the Resurrection day.  Today is the day after the Resurrection Day! I was prompted by a facebook post of a friend that said: "What part of your life needs to be resurrected?"  Even before that facebook post, my brother encouraged me to blog again. More than anybody else's words, the Lord has been nudging me to write again. I have been procrastinating on writing. I am so amazed that exactly around this time three years ago, I wrote about the wonder that God let us experience as a family that Resurrection Sunday when we were on our way to our family tradition of watching the sun rise by the lake.

This year, as we all exprienced, was a different Resurrection Day celebration. Locked indoors in our homes on these uncertain times due to the corona virus pandemic the world is facing, we didn't have our traditional trip to the lake to watch the sunrise and have a family devotional there. Rather, we watched our church service partly broadcasted on a local television channel in our bedroom and the rest we watched online in our kitchen.

I want to share the verse that our pastor shared in the service.  In John 20:19, the disciples, like us, were locked indoors because of fear. With the pandemic this world is facing right now, people wrestle with fear, anxiety, paranoia. But the the next verse was a light in their present darkness.  The Lord Jesus appeared with His powerful words that we desperately need right now: "Peace be with you."  Wherelse can we find peace but from the Prince of Peace Himself. What a place of refuge and strength as we go through this path of uncertainty.

This year is definitely an unforeseen way of remembering the Resurrection Day. But we have the same God Who was raised from the dead Who gives us His assurance of peace in His presence. As we stay indoors on these uncertain times, may we be filled with God's promise of peace.