I’m pondering what the Bible has to say about Resurrection.
We know that Resurrection is the cornerstone of our hope and faith.
Resurrection is the touchdown catch that wins the game. It’s the grand slam home run that seals the victory. It’s the slam dunk. The hole in one.
Resurrection is at the center of the Christian faith.
Today, the reality of Resurrection finds itself overwhelmed by punts, foul balls, bricks, and bogeys.
Our culture today hopes for Resurrection, but, scientifically speaking, it’s a hard thing to swallow.
Where is the evidence? With all our modern medicine and science, we still can’t bring a dead person back to life. Death is so…final.
Resurrection? Just like in sports: “What have you done for me lately?”
As a person of faith who believes in the actual, physical resurrection of Jesus from the dead, it is hard not to be overwhelmed by our experience (a real Resurrection would make the news world-wide) and by the seeming finality of death all around us.
We get beat down by experience and then we get distracted by the “now”, the immediacy of living life. We deliberately medicate our fear by getting busy, accumulating, achieving, gathering, and serving others. Anything but face this uncertainty around the big question: Is there really life after life?
I think we’ll all be shocked by the Truth. I believe that is what happened to the eyewitnesses of Jesus’ Resurrection. They were astonished and shocked. At first, the were bewildered by the empty tomb and they were potentially afraid they were being set up. Wouldn’t you feel like someone was yanking your chain?
But then, they realized the shocking Truth! Jesus was physically resurrected, a new body “swallowing up death in victory”. The old body plus new features we can’t imagine.
The Resurrection witnesses were shocked, just like this world will be. The impossible had happened. Glory! The IMPOSSIBLE REALLY HAPPENED!
I play bogey golf. I’m not a good free throw shooter. I stink at baseball. I’ll never score a winning touchdown…….in this body.
In spite of science and conventional wisdom, I believe in a God that can pull it off. Resurrection is real.
We know that Resurrection is the cornerstone of our hope and faith.
Resurrection is the touchdown catch that wins the game. It’s the grand slam home run that seals the victory. It’s the slam dunk. The hole in one.
Resurrection is at the center of the Christian faith.
Today, the reality of Resurrection finds itself overwhelmed by punts, foul balls, bricks, and bogeys.
Our culture today hopes for Resurrection, but, scientifically speaking, it’s a hard thing to swallow.
Where is the evidence? With all our modern medicine and science, we still can’t bring a dead person back to life. Death is so…final.
Resurrection? Just like in sports: “What have you done for me lately?”
As a person of faith who believes in the actual, physical resurrection of Jesus from the dead, it is hard not to be overwhelmed by our experience (a real Resurrection would make the news world-wide) and by the seeming finality of death all around us.
We get beat down by experience and then we get distracted by the “now”, the immediacy of living life. We deliberately medicate our fear by getting busy, accumulating, achieving, gathering, and serving others. Anything but face this uncertainty around the big question: Is there really life after life?
I think we’ll all be shocked by the Truth. I believe that is what happened to the eyewitnesses of Jesus’ Resurrection. They were astonished and shocked. At first, the were bewildered by the empty tomb and they were potentially afraid they were being set up. Wouldn’t you feel like someone was yanking your chain?
But then, they realized the shocking Truth! Jesus was physically resurrected, a new body “swallowing up death in victory”. The old body plus new features we can’t imagine.
The Resurrection witnesses were shocked, just like this world will be. The impossible had happened. Glory! The IMPOSSIBLE REALLY HAPPENED!
I play bogey golf. I’m not a good free throw shooter. I stink at baseball. I’ll never score a winning touchdown…….in this body.
In spite of science and conventional wisdom, I believe in a God that can pull it off. Resurrection is real.
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