Several times today I heard today called “Super Sunday.” I don’t think so! I don’t care if there was a hundred yard interception return for a touchdown. There was only one “Super Sunday” and that happened almost 2000 years ago. Jesus had been in the tomb since Friday evening and not just Jesus’ disciples but the entire universe was in mourning. How could it be that the one who would later be described by Paul as “the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature” be dead? How could the one who raised Lazarus to life be so mangled and torn? How could those hands that cradled children be ripped to bloody shreds? The horror of the weekend was beyond belief. Even Satan was amazed that Jesus took it. His plan had been to so torture, so mutilate, so debase Jesus that He would give up, declaring that we were not worth it. But our Jesus is a real hero. He took all that hell could heap upon Him.
Sunday morning an angel rushed from heaven’s throne with the most important task ever assigned to anyone or any angel. The earth shook as he swept into the garden. Some of the most wonderful words ever spoken followed. “Thy Father calls thee.” Surely Satan had mustered all the forces of evil to keep Jesus in that tomb. But one righteous angel is all it takes to defeat all the forces of Hell.
Oh, “I serve a risen savior. He’s in the world today. I know that He is living whatever men may say.”
The next time you hear someone talk about “Super Sunday,” if you can, remind them of the real “Super Sunday.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on February 1, 2009
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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