Matt Chandler reflects about the Resurrection and how the events of Easter unfolded. In his reflection he reads the passage about the disciples recounting Easter events and then says "then they remembered." They remembered what Jesus had said would happen. They remembered His life and maybe began to understand how things pointed to that moment. They remembered who Jesus said he was. They remembered that though He was God's Son he was humble. They remembered the last supper (we will celebrate this at 6pm on Thursday, April 5th) and that Jesus had some things to say that evening. They might have remembered falling asleep while Jesus prayed in the garden ... oddly, a prayer for His disciples, for unity, and for His people to become a force that would be different than any movement in history, not by might but by their love and their expression of the Holy Spirit. They probably remembered (with horror) Jesus being nailed to the cross and dying there as they stood by helpless. Maybe they even remembered the emptiness as they walked away thinking "That's that. It's over. We will never know the answer." But they certainly did remember that Jesus said He would be arrested, beaten, crucified, buried and, on the third day, rise from the dead.
I can't imagine that moment of hope. That moment when they said "It was ALL true!" That knowledge that brings the reality that nothing would ever be the same again. History, the entire creation (now beginning a beautiful cycle of redemption), and broken people ... all being redeemed (John Wesley would have said the process of sanctification is in full force). Do you remember? Pastor Randy
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