The Ultimate Quarantine

Today is Easter...Happy Easter! In the current climate, it can be hard to find happiness, especially since most of us are either locked down by government edict or in quarantine by our own choice. Yesterday, my pastor sent out a note that gave me some perspective on all of this; perhaps it will help you, too:

On this day before our Easter celebrations, we should remember something important. Christ’s body really laid in a cold, dark tomb. As the Westminster Shorter Catechism 27 puts it, on the day before Easter, Christ’s body continued “under the power of death for a time.”

I know many of us are growing weary of lockdowns and quarantines. Let us remember that Jesus submitted himself, for a time, to a far greater quarantine – the quarantine of the grave.

But let us also not forget that all of this was for us, to ensure that we as His people never experience the eternal, and double, quarantine of both the grave and hell. Because Jesus conquered the tomb on that first Easter Sunday, our souls will be instantly transferred to the bliss of God’s presence at our death. And on the day of our Lord’s return, even our bodies will escape the quarantine of the grave and will rise to everlasting life.

So in this day before Easter, let us thank the Lord of Life who humbled Himself to spend time in a tomb – for us! And let us rejoice because that same Lord refused to be held under death’s power any longer than was necessary. On the third day, He rose again! And because of that, so will we!

He is risen!