The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, "Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive he said, 

'After three days I will rise again.'

So give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come, steal him, and tell the people, 

'He has been raised from the dead',

and the last deception will be worse than the first.

Take guards, 

Pilate told them.

Go and make it as secure as you know how.

They went and secured the tomb by setting a seal on the stone and placing the guards.

Matthew 27:62-66 CSB

We know what some of the people in Jesus world were up to after his crucifixion. 

Making sure that this really was the end of Jesus, that he would be heard of no more. 

I wonder what Peter was doing?

What Mary was doing?

What Barrabas was doing?

Even though it all seemed over, that hope, that love for Jesus may have been kept alive only in the hearts of the small, the powerless, when the Big Story seemed to have come to an end...our God was still at work. 

No matter what our world might look like or feel like on Easter Saturday, our God's love is at work.

Trust Him.

That love without measure that took Jesus to the cross is at work, is here, and is coming for us.

#easter2021

#weknowhowthisstoryends

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