What did they think when the curtain tore? When the rocks split? When the earth shook? When the tombs opened? When the holy people were raised to life? Was their hearts pounding in their chest? Were their bodies trembling? Did they fall to their knees? While it does say that the centurion and others with him exclaimed that this was the ‘Son of God’, it also tells us that the chief priests and the Pharisees referenced Jesus as a ‘deceiver’ and that his life was a deception. Really? If you didn’t believe him before, how could you not now? I cannot fathom how someone could have been there and experienced everything that happened that day and not believe that he was the true Son of God. How? I guess it is no different than it is now. How can someone look in the face of a newborn child and not know there is a God? How can someone look upon the beauty of this earth and not know there is a God? How can someone love and not know there is a God? How can you wake up in the morning to a new sunrise and not know there is a God? I will never understand how anyone can believe that there is no God, that there is no Son, and that there is no Holy Spirit that dwells within us. While I am overjoyed that I can’t understand it, I am deeply saddened by the ones who don’t believe---they are truly missing out on the greatest, the most wonderful, the most joyous and grace-filled love that anyone can have. Unlike this moment in time, when Jesus does return for his children everyone will know who he is, everyone will bow at his feet, and everyone will believe that he is the Son of God.
Oh Jesus, thank you once again for opening my heart and my eyes to your very presence, thank you for loving me, forgiving me, and showing me more grace, compassion, and love than I deserve. I am so blessed to know you and to call you my Father. Thank you for taking all my sins upon you, thank you for walking those difficult paths for me and thank you for the suffering, the pain, and the death that you had to endure in order to make a way for me to be with you one day. Thank you for sending your spirit to dwell in me so that I can make it through this life. You are truly the Savior of the World, but today all I can think about is you being my Savior from this world. Thank you Jesus!
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