Victory!

March 23, 2008

Lar,

I could not allow this day to pass without making a post giving thanks for the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. I don’t have the time to post all that I am thinking. And even if I did, I could not do justice to the joy found in contemplating all that Jesus accomplished in His life, death, and resurrection. But suffice it to say on a day like this that apart from the resurrection, His perfect life and sacrificial death would not have meant much to the world. Sure, they would have been admirable, but there would have been no ultimate conquest over death, over Satan, over sin.

Yet whatever the result would have been, we need not worry, for Jesus did rise again. One day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. One day the kingdom of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of His glory as the waters cover the sea. And we can say this all with confident and eager expectation and joy because Jesus Christ did not remain in the tomb, but rose again.

I could say more, but the following verses naturally state things much better than I ever could.

“I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raied imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and theis mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’ ‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Amen and Amen.

Looking forward to the day when we will see all that the life, death and resurrection of Jesus accomplished….

Joe

Posted by Joe | Filed Under Scripture Meditation, Seeking Him