Open and Empty

I like things that are out in the open so I can see them. This is particularly important to me if something might some danger attached to it. I have had an occasion when I have walked past a paper wasps nest that was hidden under the verandah and unintentionally upset them. This of course meant that I got bitten resulting in a very uncomfortable few days while the swelling went down. During the next few days I found more nests. Some were active with the holes closed. Others were had holes that were open which meant that they were finished and the nest had been abandoned.

They remind me of another abandoned nest of sorts. There was a cave that was used to place the body of Jesus after He was taken down from the cross. “When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.” Matthew 27:57-60.

When the women went back to the tomb on the Sunday they found that it was open and empty. “And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.” Luke 24:3. Unlike those paper wasp’s nest there was danger hidden in the tomb of Jesus. As a result of His death there is eternal life for those that ask. “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.” 1 Corinthians 15:21