Tuesday, September 20
Tempted and Tried
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 125
Sometime before dawn on a Sunday morning
That corpse of Jesus just lay there in the silences of that cave. By all appearances it had been tested and tried, and found wanting. If you’d been there to pull open his bruised eyelids, matted together with mottled blood, you would have looked into blank holes. If you’d lifted his arm, you would have felt no resistance. You would have heard only the thud as it hit the table when you let it go. You might have walked away from that morbid scene muttering to yourself, “The wages of sin is death.”
But sometime before dawn on a Sunday morning, a spike-torn hand twitched. A blood-crusted eyelid opened. The breath of God came blowing into that cave, and a new creation flashed into reality….
Tempted and Tried
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2011), 125
(HT: Kingdom People)
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