Read 1 Corinthians 15:50-57 and reflect on the passage.
A great old Easter hymn asks the rhetorical question, “Could the Head (Jesus) rise and leave His members (us) dead?”
The answer is: of course, He couldn’t. He won’t. Jesus risen means that we— His body—will be resurrected, too. We must be alive forever, too! This is both our hope and our real expectation as Easter people.
We have eternal life right now, by faith in Jesus. When our earthly bodies die, we still live on forever. “…Whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die,” says Jesus (John 11:26).
We sometimes can wonder about the details of our resurrections, but not the truth that we will be resurrected. We will be changed; we will be new; we will live more fully than ever before—and forever, too, which is a very long time.
Jesus lives; we live, too, right now and with Him eternally. This is the great truth and hope that first changed the world, and that keeps changing it as people like us come to believe and experience Easter and Jesus’ life in us. Christ is Risen!
Questions
1. What questions about Heaven and eternal life do you have? Do they keep you from enjoying your Easter Hope?
2. Can you imagine what life with Jesus forever might look/live like? The Scripture’s pictures help us to keep them close at hand every day.
Prayer
Living Jesus, thank You that I am eternally alive right now. Help me live the hope I have every day—one foot, already in Heaven. Amen.
—Paul ulring
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