Easter Sunday - Holy Week 2026

This devotion is written by J.D. Walt and is entitled, “An Easter Postscript - One Last Question.” J.D. Walt is the Executive Director of seedbed.com.

Matthew 16:15 NIV

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

CONSIDER THIS . . .

So how are you responding to the question of all questions?

But what about you? . . . Who do you say that I am?

Let’s not make the mistake of just copying down Peter’s answer and turning it into the right answer—as though Jesus were just looking for the correct answer.

“You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:16).

The truth is Peter gave Jesus something way beyond a right answer to an important question. Peter offered Jesus a response to divine revelation. Peter did not react to a teacher with a Sunday school answer. He responded to God by leaning in with his life.

Remember my confirmation class from the early days of this Lenten journey? I told them the story of a wire walker who stretched a wire across a treacherous canyon. In front of a stunned audience, he walked across the wire and back. He asked the audience if they thought he could do it again. They cheered loudly with affirmation.

Then he reached for a wheelbarrow and put it on the wire. He asked the cheering audience, “Who will get in the wheelbarrow?” 

Faith is not believing the right things about Jesus. Faith is believing Jesus.

If Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God, the Bread of Life and the Light of the World, the Good Shepherd, the way and the truth and the life, very God of very God—and if what is on offer here is to be transformed, to be remade in the image of God, into his likeness—we must respond with our whole lives.

Faith is not the right answer. It is the right response.

When Peter said, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God,” he was, in essence, responding with the response Jesus had been waiting for: all in.

We asked that question of all questions every single week in our yearlong confirmation class.

It’s why I’m asking you, for Jesus, again today.

But what about you? . . . Who do you say that I am?

Don’t give the right answer. Respond to the revelation. I’ll never forget how one day, months into our confirmation class, I asked the question of questions, and one of our students, Ava Grace, offered this mind-blowing response to the revelation:

“Where’s the wheelbarrow?”

Okay, now it’s your turn!

PRAY

Our Father, thank you for your Son, Jesus. Lord Jesus, you are our Lord and our God. Where is the wheelbarrow? We’re going all in with you. We are growing. We really want to change. And our desire for you is at an all-time high. Come, Holy Spirit. “Lead on, O King Eternal. The day of march is come.”1 Praying in your name, amen.

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