While the majority of people in Israel had accepted the reality of the death of Jesus Christ and were fast adjusting their everyday experiences to match his absence, a minority were still sorrowed at heart due to his demise.
As the day began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and other women rushed to the tomb site of Jesus Christ, not in hope of his resurrection, but to anoint his body for a ‘pleasant’ experience in death. They expected to find the master lying in the place of the dead, but to their surprise, he was not found where they had laid him.
They frantically searched for the Lord among the dead. He was not there and they knew not what to make of the situation. They searched again: probably someone had laid him on another grave bed – he was not there!
Suddenly, they saw two angels who interrupted their search with the question: “Why look for the living among the dead? You won’t find him here. He is risen.”
They hoped to find the Lord among the dead, but it appeared that their search was wrong because they were looking for the Lord in the wrong place.
There are a lot of Christians who expect to find the Lord in the wrong places as those women expected. There are places where the Lord cannot be found.
When we seek to find the Lord in death, it is a situation of seeking the living among the dead, you won’t find him there – He is risen. When you seek to find the Lord in poverty, it is a situation of seeking the living among the dead, you won’t find him there – He is risen. When you seek to find the Lord in sickness, it is a situation of seeking the living among the dead, you won’t find him there – He is risen.
You cannot find the will of God in death, for the Lord is not in death. You cannot find the will of God in poverty, for the Lord is not in poverty. You cannot find the will of God in sickness, for the Lord is not in sickness.
Death, sickness, poverty, lack, insufficiency, mediocrity, and the likes of such are not the will of God for you.
It is not the will of God that you experience any of those things, and you will be searching for the Lord in the wrong places when you seek to find the will of God in any of those experiences.
You will find the will of God in life, prosperity, health, excellence, and the likes of such that affirm his love and goodness towards us: for he gives us all things richly to enjoy.
If you will stop searching for the Lord among the dead, you will find him in the places he has ordained for his glory.
I call you blessed.
Apostle Destiny Kingston