It would do us well to meditate on this scene:

It shows us that there is an intricate relationship between the blue sky above our Lord when He was in the wilderness during those 40 Days after His baptism, (the 40 Days that we remember, contemplate, and in some senses enter into during Lent) and the blue sky above Him when He hung upon the Cross at Calvary and the blue sky above the tomb in which His body lay after His burial.

This blue sky is tantamount to the anticipation of the glory of Heaven. We see it in its brilliance and clarity, a brilliance and clarity so bright that it almost defies the imagination as to how such glory could actually be achieved. But lo! And behold!! It has come upon us. The very glory that spake the worlds into being has once again entered into our lamentable midst and triumphed over those lamentations.

What a wonderfully glorious day it will be when Easter will be that Final reality that dawns bright and glorious for ALL on earth who dwell, one that is present intimately within, to, and between everyone simply because the reign of God has triumphed everso gloriously and definitively in our midst, in a most profoundly personal and at one at the same time, collective manner.

And it will be the completion of the triumph that the very first Easter on earth begun. And what a Day that will be! This, the now, of the blue sky in our midst, is but a glimpse of that hope which does not disappoint. When Jesus rose from the tomb, this was the Sign that He who had been taken for a contradiction could not be ultimately contradicted for He, the author and finisher of life itself always has the last word, unlike death itself, which was contradicted in the end by life’s triumph.

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