RUNNING FOR JESUS

John 20:1-10
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

The Resurrection

1 Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. 2 She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb. 4 They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7 while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings. 8 Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed—9 for until then they still hadn’t understood the Scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the dead. 10 Then they went home.


“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; … run and not get weary;…” – Isa. 40:31

When Mary Magdalene saw the stone rolled away, she ran. When John and Peter heard about the stone being disturbed, they ran.

There is a lyric from a song by the Mississippi Mass Choir:

I’ve been running for Jesus a long time;
I’m not tired yet.

What is your response to the resurrected Christ? Are you wearing out your running shoes?