Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, the day we celebrate that Christ is risen! But does the Risen Christ ever seem distant to you? Today, many of us are so often like Mary heading to the Tomb on Resurrection Sunday.

Mary needed to spend some time with Jesus. She had so many questions about life, the future, and what exactly she was to do for God. She also came in sorrow and confusion-thinking that now He was gone. Jesus seemed so distant to her after the crucifixion.

All the memories of Him flooded her mind. Jesus had loved her, forgiven her, and made her so many promises. But now Jesus seemed to be so far away, all of those things seemed distant to Mary.

When Jesus

Seems Distant

Do you sometimes feel distant from the Lord? As we go through all the struggles of life, most of us seem to arrive at those distant times, far from the quietness of the garden on Resurrection morning.

We slowly drift away from some of the gracious assurances that Jesus offered to Mary.

But, as God's Word constantly reminds us, that is only our fault, because the truth of the resurrection is that Jesus is alive. And since He is alive; He is still doing the same things He did then.

Did you catch that? Jesus wants us to know that He is still doing just what He did that morning with Mary in John 20, and in the days that followed. So much of His ministry was assuring the disciples of what they already knew, and encouraging them to do what He left them here to do.

Will you see Jesus anew and afresh with me, and experience all that He wants to do in your life and mine today, and in the days ahead-if we will invite Him to be at work in us.

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