In the week after the Resurrection there are myriad contemplations that we have left unresolved in the wake of the events we experienced with Christ last week. One question I was recently asked is: why did the women go to the grave in the first place? They knew the stone was there. They knew they were not strong enough to move the stone. They brought spices with them - why? What were they going to do with these spices if the tomb was sealed?
My contemplation is that I don't think it was a rational decision that they made by weighing the pros and cons. They were devastated. They wanted to see Christ in any way possible. They had a desperation that trumped logic, so it's not possible to really ask "what were they thinking?" because they really weren't thinking. For our purposes now we can ask ourselves if we have the same sense of urgency. Do we seek Christ in this irrational, unreasonable way that these women did on Sunday morning? If we do we will find Him in the same miraculous, impossible to expect way that they did.
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