Day 8 – Easter Sunday: When Broken Things Don’t Stay Buried
A Jacked Up Holy Week - An Eight Day Devotional
📖 Luke 24:5–6 (NET)
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has been raised!”
🌅 The Grave Can’t Hold Grace
They came expecting death. To prepare a body. To say goodbye properly. To mourn what they thought was over. Instead, they found an empty tomb—and an angel with a mic-drop line:
“Why are you looking for the living among the dead?”
The world says dead things stay dead. But Easter shouts: not with God.
🔁 Resurrection Is Messy
We picture resurrection as clean and glorious, but don’t skip the details. Jesus rose with scars. He didn’t hide the evidence of crucifixion—He redeemed it.
And He didn’t rise to applause. He rose to disbelief. Confusion. Tears. That’s what real healing looks like sometimes. Not a sudden breakthrough but a quiet awakening. Not a perfect Instagram story but a stumbling walk toward hope.
Resurrection isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming who you were always meant to be—even if you’re limping.
🧠 For the Jacked Up Ones
If you feel too far gone, too burned out, too ashamed—Easter is for you. Resurrection isn't just a doctrine; it’s a declaration that God isn’t finished with jacked-up people.
Your past? He paid for it.
Your shame? He bore it.
Your mess? He walked into it—and walked out with victory.
You are not what tried to bury you. You are not stuck in Saturday. The stone has been rolled away.
🎉 This Is Not the End
Resurrection doesn’t erase the pain of Holy Week—but it reframes it. It reminds us that God writes the last word, not fear, not failure, not even death.
You don’t have to feel it all to believe it. You just have to show up at the tomb.
And when you do, you might just hear a whisper that changes everything:
“He is not here. He is risen.”
🙏 Reflection Questions:
What part of me still feels buried?
What would it look like to live as someone raised with Christ?
What scar could God be turning into a story of redemption?
👏 You made it. Eight jacked-up days. One resurrected Savior. One new foundation to build your life on—grace. Leave a comment below to share your jacked up journey!
"Resurrection isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming who you were always meant to be—even if you’re limping".
This was for me this morning! Thank you, Michael. I pray you and your family are well! - Tamala
"Resurrection isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about becoming who you were always meant to be—even if you’re limping".
This was for me this morning! Thank you, Michael. I pray you and your family are well! - Tamala