APRIL 19 – LATE

04/19 Luke 23:49-56
But Jesus’ friends, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching. 50 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph. He was a member of the Jewish high council, 51 but he had not agreed with the decision and actions of the other religious leaders. He was from the town of Arimathea in Judea, and he had been waiting for the Kingdom of God to come. 52 He went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. 53 Then he took the body down from the cross and wrapped it in a long linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb that had been carved out of rock. 54 This was done late on Friday afternoon, the day of preparation for the Sabbath. 55 As his body was taken away, the women from Galilee followed and saw the tomb where they placed his body. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and ointments to embalm him. But by the time they were finished it was the Sabbath, so they rested all that day as required by the law.
LATE
I suspect that Joseph wished he had said something sooner about his faith and maybe rallied support among those others that kept quiet about the railroading of Jesus to the Cross. I know that everything that happened the Lord knew and that what happened worked out for our benefit but I still think Joseph felt some level of guilt about what happened to Jesus. I encourage you to be vocal about your faith and consistent with the way you live. Jesus is alive and we are to proclaim Him until we die and go to be with Him.