Are you frightened or comforted when God executes His sovereign plans?

Luke 24:5  "In their fright, the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, 'Why do you look for the living among the dead?' "

The angels spoke here to Mary and the other women who had come to Jesus' tomb, only to find the stone rolled away and the tomb empty.  What should have brought them immense comfort and joy (the risen savior fulfilling what He had told them would happen) instead brought them panic, fear and bewilderment.

What would have been comforting to them in that moment would have been to see what they were expecting to see- Jesus' dead human body lying in the tomb exactly where it had been left.  What would be comforting about that, other than fulfilling their expectation?  What was at the moment deeply troubling and frightening was in fact Jesus' fulfillment of Scripture and the foundational event upon which Christianity is built.

Where else in our lives do we look for the living among the dead?  What idols do we have that we think will bring us a better life, but in the end are dead?  In what other ways should we be asking God to not simply be a dead body lying in a tomb when we go looking for Him, but to bewilder and amaze us with His plan that is imminently better than anything we can conceive?