reflections on the love that changes everything
So my encouragement to you today, dear friend, is to lift your eyes. Look up. Let your heart be captured by the glory that awaits you at the end of time. Because of Jesus, winter will not have the last word. You are going home to God. You are going to live in his eternal spring, and it’s all because of Jesus.
The women at the tomb had the right information—an empty tomb, an angel’s message, a reminder of Jesus’ promise—but their frame didn’t allow for resurrection. At least not yet. But Mary’s frame changed when she heard her name from the lips of the risen Christ. And that changed everything.
With the resurrection hope that we have in Jesus, we have a foundation for our life that will never be shaken.
We immerse ourselves in God’s words and promises to us, allowing the Holy Spirit to impact our memory so that we remember what we need to remember, to impact our understanding so that we have room for resurrection life in our understanding of reality, and to impact our heart so that we believe what we need to believe about Jesus.
Standing before the resurrected Jesus, in the company of our Jesus-following friends, we discover who we really are before God and before the world.
Stepping out of our busy, fast-paced lives to take a weekly Sabbath will help us to see what God is doing in and around us with resurrection wonder.
Paying attention to the way that the resurrected Jesus is present with us in our daily meals helps us to grow in living the resurrection.
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