He Is Not Here
“For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”Psalm 16:10 (KJV)
A thousand years before the first Easter, David wrote a line that seemed to be about himself. “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”
But David died, and his body saw corruption like everyone else’s. So who was he talking about? On the day of Pentecost, Peter answered: “He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.”
On the first day of the week, the women came to the tomb with spices, ready for a body. Instead an angel met them: “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
As he said. Every promise Jesus made stands on that empty tomb. Death could not hold him. And because he lives, everyone who belongs to him will live too. He is risen.
Read it yourself
Read Matthew 28:1–10. What two things did the angel tell the women to do?
Which promise of Jesus do you need to hold onto today, knowing that he rose as he said?
Risen Lord, you are not in the tomb. Thank you that death could not hold you, and that it will not hold me. Amen.