Where is Your Jesus

John 20:15 Mary is at the empty tomb crying because Jesus was missing. She was staring at the grave and talking to what she thought was a gardener. She asked, where did you take Jesus? She was talking to the one she was looking for and did not even know it. I believe there are times we miss Jesus too because our problems look so big. We can either focus on Jesus or our trouble but I don't think we can focus on both at the same time. The disciples were locked in a room afraid of being arrested. There are times we sit "locked in fear" waiting on bad things to happen. Instead of getting arrested, Jesus appears to them in the room, answered their questions and calmed their fears. If we will call on the Lord during our trouble instead of allowing ourselves to be terrified we will find Him standing with us too. The end of the story Peter is so discouraged about Jesus' death, he decides to "go back to what he was doing before he met Jesus". There are people we know, maybe even us, that choose to go back to things we did before we came to know the Lord. We can always be drawn back to the "old natural urges" if we do not proactively work to avoid that. Jesus did exactly what He told His disciples He was going to do and He will do the same thing with us. Put all of your confidence in the Lord and find your self celebrating His faithfulness instead of standing around an empty tomb crying about a problem that does not exist. You and I will still face problems and have to guard against fear and giant looking circumstances but if death could not defeat our Lord I promise nothing we face can defeat Him either!