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He’s not here!

I DON’T know about you but, if I lose something, the first place that I look is where I last remember putting it, and I broaden my search from there. We can only imagine the thought processes of Mary and the other disciples on that first Easter morning as they discovered that Jesus was no longer in the tomb where they had left him. Surprise! Incredulity! Fear! Joy! Excitement!

And yet were they to pause they would recall that he had told them what would happen. Could you imagine reading a book to a point of dramatic pause, putting it down and then discovering when you pick it up again that the story had moved on without you? Jesus wasn’t lost; he was just not where they left him. The tomb was not the end of the story. ‘He isn’t here! He is risen’ (Mark 16:6 New Living Translation).

In this week’s issue, we are reminded that we can at times be slow to see what is placed before us, we are given a picture of the new hope that is ours through the Resurrection and we are encouraged to celebrate as Easter people in the knowledge that Christ’s victory of death is won and that this changes everything.

May God bless you and encourage you as we celebrate Christ’s glorious resurrection.

MAJOR JULIAN WATCHORN EDITOR

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