While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’”
Luke 24:4-7 NIV
Remember
Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. More than 20 years later, the site of the community of Africville remained a stark, under-utilized park. In the 1991 National Film Board production “Remember Africville,” former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, spoke out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, told the story of that painful relocation.
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I often wonder what it must have been like for the first disciples to sit under the teaching of Jesus. Very early, even the religious leaders recognized that Jesus taught with a unique authority. They didn’t miss anything He told them, and the Holy Spirit helped them to remember it all, knowing that they would share it all with the world in which they lived and through the Gospels, with us in our day as well. In the hours following the resurrection, angels appeared to Jesus’ disciples, and in Luke 24:4-7 we read this: “While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: “The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.”’ Read your Bible – God’s Word – and invite God to bring to your remembrance all you have read.
These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley