Have you ever felt your soul leave your body? I have - once in a car crash, and another time when I was very sick. In both cases I felt my soul zap back into my body when someone interrupted my bliss of being free.
I wonder if it was like that for Jesus. At his death on the cross, he commended his spirit to the Father. His friends and family wrapped his body and laid it in a donated tomb. But when they returned three days later, his body was gone, and two men in dazzling apparel - possibly the thieves that had been crucified along side him - said, “He is not here; he is risen!”
Jesus’ soul was busy those three days; he had more work to do after his brutal death on the cross. He experienced hell and heaven, and everything in between, continuing his work of redemption even after he’d been freed of this world.
I don’t wonder if Jesus had any reluctance to return to his body and walk the earth yet again, to demonstrate to his followers that he really had overcome death, both body and soul.
See, I believe Jesus literally rose from the dead. He overcame spirit as well as matter. He reformatted and reconstructed everything. Despite knowing some still wouldn’t believe, even having seen his dead body and now his resurrected one, he came back. I love Him even more for this further sacrifice.
He ascended after his resurrection, but where did he go? To me, not anywhere; He has transcended time and place; He is everything and everywhere in this world and the universe. Thank you, Lord!
Sharon Keene
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