John 19:38-42

John 19:38-42
English Standard Version (ESV)

  It's Monday morning -- a new week is beginning, filled with hopes and dreams and uncertainties and anxieties, but you can take comfort in one thing -- Jesus Christ ascended the cross and went to the tomb so that your sins might not burden you into this week.  You don't have to spend a single second of your week worrying about a sin that is in your past.  You don't have to fear if God loves you, because God has proven it, once and for all, when he willingly entered a tomb and died the death that we deserved.  Christ died for you, and because he died, you shall live.  The world closed the tomb, thinking that was the end of the story, but a new beginning was on hand.
  So as you go into the day, picture a new world, lit with the love of God, is before you.  Live like that's what matters more than anything else.