Inside The Tomb

 Imagine yourself inside the tomb, the stone rolled to close the opening.  Total darkness, with a dead body beside you.  The dead body is Jesus.  You can do nothing to change the situation.  That is, he is dead and you are encased.  But what is your response in attitude?  Do you have any hope that things will get better.  There is no indication that the darkness and death will change.  Do you take any comfort that you are next to Jesus though he is dead?  And what is there of him in that dead body?  Maybe he has gone to the nether world to see Adam and Eve.  Just you and Jesus’ dead body.  I suspect most people “of faith” would despair.  Most everyone outside the tomb has done so.  Inside the tomb filled with darkness, you do have a choice how to respond.  If you believe, you simply wait and put up with all the feelings that arise.  You will to wait, in trust, in hope, with courage, in spite of feelings and apparent reality around you.  It is rock bottom time, and you still trust that there is a power that will act.  This is the faith of a spiritual recovery.