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Easter and the Promise of a Continual Resurrection, April 12

Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. – Romans 6:4

We know the basic Easter story. The women go to the tomb in the early morning to anoint Jesus’ body. When they arrive, they discover that the tomb is empty. A young man is there, and he tells the women, who are now shaken, scared to death, in fact, that Jesus has been raised. “Go tell his disciples”, the young man says. So they run and tell the disciples who don’t believe them, partly at least, because they are women.
About this brief, almost blunt Gospel account, Fred Craddock quips, “Is this any way to run a ressurection? Is this enough to persuade, to stir new life in the followers of Jesus?”
I like the gospel account precisely because it is so unadorned, straightforward, and so very, honestly human. The women, the first witnesses to the resurrection, at first found that no one believed them. That feels authentic to me. It’s exactly how you and I might have reacted had we been there.
“The first Christians were not expecting the resurrection. They did not believe it when the women first announced it. They had all scattered and hidden as Jesus was condemned and executed….Yet this band of cowards was suddenly changed into an energetic body of effective witnesses, spreading their faith, firmly offering the claim that Jesus lives.”
What transformed them is the conviction that Jesus Christ is risen today, the trust that Love is strong as death.
The same God, who transformed Jesus, is the same God who wants to transform our lives as well. And because he raised Jesus from the dead he has the power to do it.
Happy Easter to you!

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