The Next Day

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.' Therefore 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. Then the deception will be worse than the first."
"You have a guard of soldiers," Pilate told them, "Go and make it as secure as you know how." Then they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting the guard. Matthew 27:62-66

The tools of darkness are always the same: lie, deceive, cheat, kill, destroy and cover your tracks. Yet, the power of God is always the same, and far greater: allow evil to think it has won, breathe life into that it destroys and defeat the enemy. Constantly evil tries to conqueror but God is over it all and far greater.

The important thing we must remember is: God is in control. Staying faithful to Him is important and trusting Him and allowing Him to be God and not taking the reins ourselves is always important. The disciples were not going to try and steal Jesus' body, they were not into deception. They were grieving and in prayer, yet the Father always had a plan that they could not comprehend, could not fathom. To the disciples crucifixion was unthinkable for their Lord, yet it happened. Jesus had warned them, but they did not understand. The future for them, at this point in time, was bleak, but they prayed.

The leaders did not pray, had no faith and were determined to control their worlds. They were into force. Sealing the tomb and placing guards across it was their plan. The fact that the temple curtain had been rent in two mattered little to them, they did not compute that they had got it wrong.

Today, the day in between death and destruction and resurrection life can seem an eternity, but God is in control amen! Trust Him!

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