The stage is set for celebration, and indeed, this is the season that we celebrate life -- the Life. We joyously commemorate a springtime day two millenia ago, a day angels cheered in triumph, trained soldiers fainted with terror, women proclaimed news that would change the world, and men's deepest sorrow was transformed to highest joy . . . the day Jesus Christ defeated death forever. He is alive!
Looking at the glorious awakening world around us, we say that all this is alive. But we forget that only weeks ago it was dead, and not many months from now it will all be dead again. It is indeed living, and living magnificently, but only for a time; for every living thing on this earth is on an unstoppable march to death. Even the grandest ancient tree will one day lose its leaves, never to bud again. The moment it begins to exist, it begins to have less and less life remaining -- it begins to die.
But Jesus is alive, for He will never die again. He alone has passed through death and come to the other side in an immortal body. This is why He is called the Firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:18). While we are living in this dying world, we are bound in dying bodies, but we have the promise that we, the children of God, will one day be made alive as Jesus is (1 Corinthians 15:49). What a great hope, and as lovely as living is, how spectacular being alive will be! Come quickly, Lord Jesus!
What you sow is not made alive unless it dies . . . for this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:36, 53
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