The women arrive at dawn with spices for a body and are met with a question that reframes the universe: why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen!

Luke's resurrection morning breaks over today's reading, and even a dark chapter of Judges cannot dim it. Death worked hard this week. It lost.

Judges shows what human power does with a morning: seventy brothers on one stone, a thornbush king, an ephod that snared a hero's legacy. Luke shows what God does with one: an empty tomb, astonished women, and a question that gently mocks every spice jar we have ever carried to a hopeless place.

Why do you look for the living among the dead? is worth praying over your own despairs. Some of what you visit with funeral supplies, God has already raised or intends to. Commit your spirit into the Father's hands the way Jesus did, and then check your dead places for rolled-away stones. He is the Living One, and He shares.