Signs of spring are all around us – green grass, the sound of lawnmowers, birds singing, buds blossoming, and warmer days. We celebrated the resurrection of God’s Son, our Savior, on Easter. God offers us new life, hope, victory over sin and death, and joy through Christ’s resurrection. Now, like the first disciples, we seek to understand what that means to us in our daily lives.
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 1 Peter 1:3
Does the resurrection mean that our problems dissolve? Our health improves? Our debts decrease while our income increases? Or that home improvement project gets done without our effort? Not necessarily. But Christ’s new life can give us strength to face those issues, or hope and strength to stand up in the face of our problems, if we keep seeking the Master of Life. In over 15 years of living with chronic back pain, I’ve found that God’s new life and power give me the hope and perseverance to keep moving forward. God’s new life and hope can give you and me the strength to face issues we’ve been avoiding or fearing for years.
"Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus." Romans 6:8-11
“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that [at] the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. (Job 19:25-27)
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