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Happy Easter

 This Is My Resurrection Day

       The resurrection of Jesus means that we         have full assurance of life BEFORE death.

Of course, we also can count on life after death - that is definitely one of the most amazing promises of scripture and not something I would in any way diminish.

But what if the resurrection is even better than that? 

Romans boldly proclaim that the same power that raised Christ from the dead is burning inside of us: begging for resurrection not to be about the afterlife but to be our way of life.

Every time you take something lifeless and broken and revive it, you are practicing resurrection.

Something as simple and ordinary as recycling your cardboard...I know right!

Coming alongside a couple whose marriage is on life support and speaking words of hope.

Sharing Jesus with a friend who doesn’t understand why, even though everything is fine on the surface, she just doesn’t feel alive.

Someone who just lost a loved one.

Someone who's feeling lost and unloved.

We live out the message of resurrection: that dead things don’t have to stay that way and that even the bleakest of circumstances imaginable can be restored.

But maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Before we start practicing resurrection out in the world, maybe we need to look inside and see those areas inside our own souls that need CPR.

Maybe right now you feel like you’ve fallen, and you’ll never be able to get back up again.

Maybe you’ve failed so catastrophically, the weight of shame is just keeping you pinned to the floor, unsure if you’ll ever get up again.

In these seasons we need to remember that the risen Jesus - “the resurrection and the life” - is the lifeblood pounding through our veins.

The fact is, if Jesus can rise up out of the grave, you can definitely get up off the floor.

Because by now we’ve realized the resurrection is not just our future hope - it’s the hope alive in us right here, in this very moment.

So, let’s breathe resurrection into our own lives and into the world around us - starting right now.

     Have a blessed Easter~