A Visit to an Empty Tomb

“Come, view the place then, with all hallowed meditation, where the Lord lay.  Spend this afternoon, my beloved brethren, in meditating upon it, and very often go to Christ’s grave, both to weep and to rejoice.

Ye timid ones, do not be afraid to approach, for ‘tis no vain thing to remember that timidity buried Christ. Faith would not have given Him a funeral at all; faith would have kept Him above ground, and would never have let Him be buried; for it would have said, ‘it would be useless to bury Christ if He were to rise’.  Fear buried Him.

Nicodemus, the night disciple, and Joseph of Arimathea, secretly, for fear of the Jews, went and buried Him.

Therefore, ye timid ones, ye may go too.  Ready-to-Halt, poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there.  Let it be your favorite haunt, there build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, ‘Come, see the place where the Lord lay.’”

Charles Spurgeon