"As easy as falling off a log" is an expression.  It refers to something regarded as so easy, unquestionable and accepted that nobody gives it a second thought.

For example, shaking hands in greeting is so common as to be second nature -- as easy as falling off a log.  Seeing someone tap their foot to music never causes questions or comment because we all know it's as easy as falling off a log.  Waving to a neighbor or seeing someone step on a fluttering piece of paper caught by the wind before picking it up are all such ordinary, conventional actions that no one questions them.  Using hands and feet in such ways is as easy as falling off a log.

It is comfortable for Christians to know Jesus encounters us in the natural world in such a calm, natural way.  Christians don't speculate over eerie paranormal phenomena because Jesus never behaves in a way to trigger such foolishness.  He doesn't arrive among his disciples Easter afternoon floating on a cushion of theatrical ground fog.  His speech isn't accompanied by the orchestration of heavenly harps as if starring in a Cecil B. DeMille movie picture.

Jesus stands among his disciples as easy as falling off a log.  He speaks simply.  He shows the disciples his hands and feet, hands that wave and grasp friends in greeting, and feet that tap the ground.  He asks a simple question, "Why are you troubled?" followed by a straightforward statement, "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself."

Jesus' plain approach doesn't mean his resurrection was unremarkable.  Quite the reverse.  The appearance of Christ was a supremely wonderful, magnificent miracle.  However, it should not have been surprising and certainly not suspicious.  Why?  Because God keeping His Word is the most natural thing in the world.  For Jesus to rise to life exactly as He promised after three days of death was entirely foreseeable.  It was sure to happen.  The disciples should never have given it a second thought. 

Faith in the resurrection doesn't require any special talent or famous intellect.  It doesn't call for a vivid imagination or exceptional gullibility.  It requires only the Word of God.  For the disciples to anticipate Jesus among them should have been as easy and natural as falling off a log.

Listen, if anyone deserved to be surprised, it was Jesus.  Shouldn't he be surprised to find them so taken back?  After all, He promised to rise.  He foretold Easter multiple times.  He guaranteed that he would see them again, and Christ never breaks His word.

Yet Jesus wasn't surprised.  He knows us.  He knows how slow of heart we are to believe.  He has seen questioning looks in our eyes before.  He's acquainted with the troubled doubts which arise in men's hearts.

That's why He gives tangible, verifiable, empirical evidence to the disciples.  He invites them to make the most of their senses.  He invites them to see and to touch.  He reminds them ghosts don't have corporeal flesh and bone like this.  He deigns to do this as much, I think, to get it out of the way as to prove anything.

You see, in the long run, Jesus doesn't leave our hopes or confidence at the mercy of our own senses.  Our eyes, ears, and fingertips are susceptible to confusion just as "science" or logic can be.  Because we are sinners, our senses and skills will also be wayward.  That which should be as easy as falling off a log, namely trusting the candid and correct Word of God, isn't easy to us at all.  We botch even that.  We can't even fall off a log skillfully.

So once again Jesus takes our place.  He conducts Himself, even in the resurrection, naturally and comfortably as a man.  While the disciples are still disbelieving for joy, Jesus asks if there is anything to eat, receives some broiled fish, and take pleasure eating.  What Jesus does is innately human, entirely natural, and at ease; like falling off a log. 

Easter isn't about making exaggerated claims or defending some overblown religious allegation.  It is simply receiving the fact that Jesus, once dead, now lives.  We don't have to "wow" people or dazzle the world with dramatic arguments or fancy theatrics.  Jesus didn't.  He behaved with open, revealing, unpretentious truth.  He carried out His promises exactly as He had said and didn't need to embellish anything.  He was simply Himself.

That is delightful to know.

For in quite the same way you and I may confidently trust in Christ being utterly real and present for us in the Sacrament of Holy Communion where He uses simple bread and plain wine.  In and with these unpretentious means we receive without question His very body and blood, not because our talents, intellect, or imaginations say so but because He says so.  In the Sacrament of the Altar Jesus is simply Himself.

Our senses will taste and touch and hear, but finally it is the presence of Christ Jesus in His Word that makes this eating so easy and natural for us -- like falling off a log.  Christian faith trusts His Word which never needs second thought.