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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Matthew 28:1-20
It is the triumphant morning of the resurrection. By it, God renders striking testimony to the perfection of the Victim, and to the complete satisfaction He finds in the work accomplished. The guards stationed at the sepulchre, far from being able to resist the prestigious event, are themselves the reluctant witnesses of it . . . and are terrified (Psalms 48:5). But the priests, thoroughly hardened, stifle the conscience of these men, just as previously they stifled that of Judas.
The women at the tomb receive the angel’s message. With hearts filled at the same time with fear and joy, they hurry to spread the news. Then they meet the Lord Himself.
Afterwards the Lord Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples, at the meeting place He appointed for them in Galilee. He gives them their orders (vv. 19, 20), a mission the more important in that it is the last wish of the One who has entrusted it to them. Let us not forget that we too have our responsibility on the one hand as witnesses of the gospel and on the other hand to keep that which He has commanded us in His Word (v. 20). But the Lord Jesus also gives a promise to His disciples. It has never failed, and will never fail any day for any believer. "I am with you alway". So finishes, as it began, the gospel of Emmanuel: God with us (Matthew 1:23).
