When Jesus was dead, He was put into a new tomb that had been carved out of a rock. Then it was closed by a large stone and sealed. However, Jesus wasn’t “gone but not forgotten.” On the morning of the third day the stone was miraculously rolled away and Jesus walked out of the tomb alive and radiant with power and glory, to live forevermore.
Jesus isn’t dead today so we shouldn’t try to confine Him to a tomb of religion or history or theology or myth or a holiday or irrelevance or nationalism or any other burial ground. At this very moment Jesus is alive, present, and active in human hearts. Is He in complete charge and total control of your heart? Have you brought “every thought captive to the obedience of Christ?” Is “Christ in you the hope of glory?”
Persistently ask God to miraculously roll away your inner stoniness and hardness of heart. Let the risen Jesus be the constant and absolute Lord, Director, and Master of your every thought, feeling, and desire!
The Resurrection of Jesus isn’t coming this Easter. He rose from the dead about 2,000 years ago and has been living ever since. He doesn’t die on Good Friday and rise again every Easter. Jesus is alive 24/7/365! Celebrate and surrender to the risen Jesus every day of the year.
The Bible calls people to an active faith, not to a passive faith. Yet week after week, year after year, Christians are brought together and trained and entombed to sit and be passive spectators year after year. “Be doers of the word and not hearers only.” Christians today are presented sermon after sermon, but where is the passionate love for the ever-living Jesus that burns in our heart day and night?
If you can see it coming, it’s not the kingdom of God. “Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, ‘The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed.'” (Luke 17:20) Look for Christ working invisibly inside of you, not in the activity of some human leader.
Christians are called to focus on the greatness of God and on the living Lord Jesus, not to make a particular nation great. “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.” (Psalm 145:3)
Is Christ really risen indeed? Then live every moment of your life like He is.
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