Going home… (John 20:1-10) 220907
This section of passage doesn’t seem to have any purpose in this gospel. It just merely telling the reader, Peter ran slower than ‘the other disciple’, whom I believe is Apostle John, and found that Jesus’ body was not in the tomb. The only thing left was the linen wrappings lying there (v5, 6, 7).
The strange thing was that when John entered the tomb, he saw and he believed (v8). But what did he believe? Did he believe that Jesus was no longer there, just as Mary Magdalene reported (v1)? Isn’t that obvious? I guess that John at that point believe that Jesus had risen from the dead, because he described the rest of them (they) did not understand the Scripture, that Jesus must rise again from the dead (v9).
The stranger thing was that the disciples decided to go back to their own home (v10). I am not too sure what was going through the mind of these disciples. Perhaps they were disappointed. Perhaps they were discouraged. And perhaps they depressed. Going home was the only thing they could do to find comfort. Going home was the only security. Going home was the only hope. I don’t know.
Sometime, I can have all I need to know about God from the Bible, I even know how to read the original Hebrew and Greek. But I cannot deny my disappointment with God. Sometime, I can have visions for God and see God’s miraculous work in and through my ministries. But I cannot run away from discouragement of fatigue and hurtful words of others. Sometime, I can have all the training in counseling and psychology, and even equipped with Taylor Johnson’s Temperament Analysis. But I can escaped depression, and struggling to cope with it. This is life. And all I can do is to go home and hopefully to find some rest and comfort.
Going home is to escape from the reality of disappointment, discouragement and depression. But I think I have to go to God and learn to find rest in Him. Because in Him I will find rest physically as I can simply lie down in green pastures (Ps 23:2); I will have my soul restored (Ps 23:3); and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever (Ps 23:6).
Where will you go when you are disappointed, discouraged and depressed?
Go to God.
HHS…
Abel…
