Luke 23
DEVASTATED

It would have been the most devastating thing that had happened in their lives. Jesus, the man they had followed and supported and loved for the past three years (at least), the man they knew as the Messiah and Son of God, had been unjustly tried, beaten half to death and crucified. He was dead. They thought Jesus was going to free Israel. They thought Jesus was God’s plan for his people. Now he was dead.

With such a great let down by God, what would our faith look like? Would we be angry at God? Would we rebel against God for letting this happen to the one man you knew didn’t deserve it?

On the day Jesus was crucified, the women who followed him watched. They followed his body to the tomb. “Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” (Luke 23 v 56 ESV).

Despite feeling so let down, these women still obeyed God and rested on the Sabbath. They did not obey God because of what people might think, they obeyed by resting on the Sabbath because God commanded it.

Despite how let-down or abandoned we might feel by God, let’s be like the women who followed Jesus and remain faithful by obeying God anyway. In the end they were not let down, Jesus was raised from the dead, and their obedience was all worthwhile.

May we stand strong in faith this week

With love in our Lord
Robert