News of the Day

I commented on recent news events to some family members and they said, “We turned the news off, we don’t watch it anymore. It’s all too negative.” As a news junkie I was taken aback. I put myself on the road to Emmaus where two disciples encountered the resurrected Jesus, but they did not recognize him. “He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you only a visitor to Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there in these days?” “What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see” (Luke 24:17-24 NIV). The news of the day is always, “He is alive!”