Borrowed

Borrowed. We all have times in our lives that we need to borrow something, whether it’s a car, tools or money, we have needs that we can’t meet on our own. I always remember my father’s advice on borrowing something: always give back what you borrowed in better condition than when you received it. That sage advice has always stuck with me when I ask someone if I can borrow something they have.

Jesus Christ borrowed something after His life had come to an end as well: a tomb. “Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God.  This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.  Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.” - Luke 23:50-53.

There was no need for Jesus to have ownership of the tomb, He wasn’t staying long. He only needed it for three days. “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” - Matthew 12:40. He knew the outcome of His crucifixion long before He ever went to the Cross.

“And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.” - Mark 8:31. In order to fulfill the will of God, Christ died on Good Friday and was placed in the borrowed tomb. But that wasn’t the end of the story, Sunday was coming.

We celebrate today, Easter Sunday, in remembrance that we serve a Risen Savior. Our God is not dead, He is alive and still in control today. The Bible says that He is currently sitting at the right hand of the Father making intercession for us. All other leaders of the world’s religions are still dead and in the tomb, but our Savior only needed a borrowed tomb for just three days.

“When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, ‘Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.’” - Revelation 1:17-18. He is alive! He is alive indeed!

Have a great Easter Sunday and God bless.