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Doomscrolling
An old human habit that has a new name.
In the 21st c., it’s endlessly scrolling social media, news sites for information.
Not a new habit.
Think of 24 hour news/weather stations.
Before that, scanning the whole newspaper or magazine for information.
It’s not new, but technology has made scrolling the news easier and perhaps more toxic.
We often find ourselves ignoring good news and fixating on the bad.
Again, human behavior to prioritize information so we can plan and react in our best interests.
The bad stuff seems to be things that can do us the most harm so we focus on it.
The problem is that these kind of actions become habits.
We see a problem, challenge, obstacle in nearly every encounter.
Our anxiety is ratcheted up.
Stress is through the roof.
Everywhere we look we see barriers, obstacles, problems, immovable stones in the news, in people, in ourselves.
This is not a new phenomena.
And we even see it on Easter morning.
The women who went to Jesus’ tomb on the first day of the week were doing a 1st c. version.
These three women had assessed the news - Jesus is dead - and reacted.
They reacted with love and devotion, but they didn’t have any hope.
They’re doing a version of doomscrolling.
Trying to figure out what to do to move forward:
They’re stressed.
They saw the stone rolled in front of the entrance to the tomb.
It would take several men to move it back.
They could only see the obstacle to doing the right thing.
A great, huge rock.
Every day, we get up, get going and start down our list of stones.
Jobs that are insufficient, unsatisfying.
A never-ending list of tasks and responsibilities.
disappointments in ourselves and others.
Maybe just getting out of bed is an obstacle.
All barriers, boulders that seem to refuse to budge.
But God is in the business of removing obstacles.
It’s important to note that all this talk about big rocks is for our benefit.
Jesus wasn’t limited.
He was stuck in the tomb like getting locked in a room.
The stone certainly served a basic physical purpose: To keep out thieves, animals.
But its value to the gospel story is in understanding that the stone represents everything that limits you and I.
With its removal, we’re free to have hope, purpose, a life.
But we’re often like these wonderful women of old.
We need to know that the stone is removed.
We need to understand what a difference it makes.
To that end, gospel stories all agree on the message:
Don’t be afraid.
Recognize your expectations:
Understand the reality:
Come and See:
Go and Tell:
For the stone’s removal to make any difference in our lives, we have to understand and accept that tomb it covered is empty.
Jesus is risen from the dead.
He gives us victory over brokenness, grief, sin, burdens - every single obstacle in life has been removed or redeemed by Christ’s resurrection.
What’s the big rock you’re facing on this Easter morning?
Don’t be afraid, but find hope in your resurrected Lord.
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