Thoughts on the readings for January 26th (Genesis 42, 43 Psalms 46, 47, 48, Matthew 28)

Matthew 28 tells that just after 6pm on the Sabbath Jesus was raised from the dead in a dramatic and terror induced experience for the guards who witnessed the angel’s powerful demonstration. This provided incontrovertible evidence of the event by impartial witnesses who were in the pay of our Lord’s enemies. The risen and glorious Lord Jesus Christ went to meet with them in Galilee, as he had arranged before his death, to give them further infallible proofs of his resurrection and to give them the great commission to carry the Gospel message into all the earth. What comfort is there in his concluding words, “Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”