Wow, I just watched this video while visiting my friend Marsha at Marsha’s Musings and wanted to share it with you.

While watching this short video, it suddenly dawned on me how hopeless Mary and all of the followers of Jesus must have felt when Jesus died on the cross.  Everything they had believed seemed to have vanished.  

They didn’t understand God’s plan.

They didn’t know Sunday was coming!

Utter devastation and grief must have overwhelmed them.

Satan and the demons of hell must have been drunken with pride and mockery.

Matthew 27:45-56

From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.  About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
 

When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”

Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.  The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save Him.”

And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He gave up His spirit.

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.  They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”   Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for His needs.  Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

Place yourself in that moment.  The One you knew as the Son of God just died.  Suddenly there is an earthquake and the DEAD began to walk through your town!  Can you imagine the chaos?  The fear?  The overwhelming despair?  The demonic cloud of darkness that rested over that place? 

Again, they didn’t know God’s plan.  

Isaiah 55:9
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Hopeless?  Don’t be.  Jesus IS alive and He will never leave nor forsake you!  Cry out to Him and He will answer you.

Sunday is just around the corner!