Five Minutes in the Garden - A Daily Discussion of God's Word

Yesterday, we saw Christ enter the room
where the disciples were gathered in fear.

He didn’t wait for them to be ready.
He came to them.

And His first gift was peace.

But He doesn’t stop there.

Because the Resurrection is not-only something we witness.

It’s something we receive.

And today, Christ does something deeply personal.

He gives them His Spirit.

Christ is risen.

But what comes next?

After the empty tomb, after the astonishment and after the realization that everything has changed... we find the disciples in a very familiar place.

We have walked through the Cross.

We have waited in the silence.

We have stood at the edge of the mystery.

And now… everything changes.

Not gradually. Not quietly.

Completely.

Because today, we hear the words that reshape everything we thought we knew:

He is not here. He is risen.

Yesterday, we stood at the empty tomb.

But today…

we step into something deeper.

Because between the Cross and the Resurrection,

there’s a mystery.

A hidden movement.

A silent victory.

While the world saw stillness…

Christ wasn’t inactive.

He descended.

Not in defeat. But in power.

We have walked through the Cross.

We have sat in the silence of the tomb.

And now…

we arrive at the place where everything changes.

The stone has been rolled away.

The tomb is no longer sealed.

But the first question spoken at the resurrection

is not a declaration.

It is a question.

A question that reaches across time—

and finds us, right where we are.

We’ve walked through the Cross. We’ve heard the final words. We’ve seen surrender placed fully into the Father’s hands.

And now… there’s silence.

• No miracles.
• No teaching.
• No movement.

Just a sealed tomb.

And for those who loved Him, it must have felt like the end.

But today, we stand in that silence—

not as those without hope… but as those learning to trust even when God seems quiet.

We’ve been walking through the mystery of surrender—

what it means to let go, to trust, to release what we cannot hold onto.

But today, we move even deeper.

Because surrender is not just about letting go of something.

It’s about placing ourselves into Someone’s hands.

And on the Cross,

in His final moments,

Jesus shows us exactly what that looks like.

Yesterday, we heard Jesus say,

“The hour has come.”

And now, He draws us closer—

not just to understand what’s happening… but to understand what it means.

Because He doesn’t leave this as a distant idea.

He brings it into something we can see.

Something we can feel.

A seed.

Simple. Small. Ordinary.

And yet, it carries a truth that changes everything.

We’ve come to a quiet turning point.

Not the beginning of the journey…

but the beginning of the end.

And for Jesus, this is not a surprise. It’s not something happening to Him. It’s something He is walking toward.

Because now, He says:

“The hour has come.”

Not later. Not eventually.

Now.

We’ve walked through repentance.

Through watchfulness.

Through decision… and even sorrow.

And now, we arrive at something quieter.

Something simpler.

Not what to do.

Not what to change.

But where to be.

Because as Christ approaches the Cross,

He turns to His disciples and asks for one thing:

Stay with Me.