Easter Eve Reflection

Jesus will be getting up soon. What did He do for those two nights His body lay in the tomb?

Today is Easter and millions of people will go to Church today, many who never go except for twice a year. I don't want to critique them, condemn them, or pity them anymore. I'm tired of having to explain this stuff or rationalize my beliefs. I don't know how any rational human being can know the story of Christ and ignore its implications. On a basic level, how can you watch The Passion and not be moved enough to seriously question the life of Jesus Christ from Nazareth?

People baffle me. We will focus so much of our attention on the most meaningless things in life and then be bold enough to question the meaning of life. I'm pretty sure we will never find true meaning in our life through spending hours researching who Kim Kardashian is dating.

Jesus sure went out with a bang but He spent the majority of His life as a carpenter. I feel like I'm building a lot of tables these days. I wonder what His life was like then...I would have loved to spent a workday with Jesus and then went out for beers afterward. I know we're supposed to have "relationship" with Christ who lives within us, but there is no replacement for having a physical human body to look at, listen to and touch. I want that. I wish He was here now. I want to say I'm jealous of what the disciples had but their lives almost all ended in martyrdom via brutal executions.

Still, we focus on very few days of Jesus' life in the Christian Church. What about all those years in the workshop? Don't most of us spend the majority of our lives in the workshop being groomed by God for that one specific ministry we are called to?

What was Jesus' daily life like before He went on that 3 year mission trip with His 12 buddies? What was the breakdown of how He spent His days hour by hour? Did He catch up on all the latest gossip? Did He tell jokes or listen to old men tell stories of past victories? Did He practice sports or music? We are called to daily live our lives for Christ but we never think about how Christ lived His daily life before His journey began in His thirties. I love Easter. I love Christmas. But everyday is not Easter or Christmas. Most days are just "Monday, Tuesday, Thursday" etc.

Jesus walked out of a tomb roughly 2012 years ago today and left a mystery the world has never fully understood nor believed. I'll never know what He did those thirty years before His ministry began. I'll never know what He did those two nights His body lay in the tomb. I hope one day, in the next life, that I get to ask Him. All I know for now is that there is nothing else worth believing in this entire world, nothing more worthy of my time, nothing that merits the dedication of my life more than that Man who lived a better life than anyone else who has ever walked this earth before.