BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 30
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”
JOHN 11:25
The risen Christ lingered on earth long
enough fully to satisfy His adherents of the truth of
His resurrection. They were not easily convinced. The
apostles treated the reports of the holy women with
scornful incredulity; Thomas doubted the testimony
of the other apostles; and some of the five hundred to
whom He appeared on a Galilean mountain doubted their
own eyesight, and only believed when they heard His
voice. The loving patience with which He treated these
doubters showed that, though His bodily appearance was
somewhat changed, He was still the same in heart as ever.
This was pathetically shown too by the places which He
has prayed and preached, labored and suffered—the
Galilean mountain, the well-beloved lake, the Mount of
Olives, the village of Bethany, and, above all, Jerusalem,
the fatal city which had murdered her own Son, but
which He could not cease to love.
J A M E S S T A L K E R ( 1 8 4 8 - 1 9 2 7 )
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