Are there areas of your life that are feeling dead? Areas where you long for new life? Maybe work. Maybe a relationship. Maybe it’s the general stress of life in 2025.
Just like he transformed the Apostle Paul’s life, Jesus’ resurrection is the pathway for new life for us. Paul would go on to write in 2 Corinthians 5:14-17, “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
New life is possible. In fact, God wants all people to experience new life. We can experience new life when we follow him. Throughout the past 2000 years, millions have experienced new life as they have chosen to follow to Jesus. And those millions of changed lives are perhaps the greatest evidence that Jesus’ resurrection really happened.
Changed lives could be instantaneous dramatic turnarounds. Changes lives could be small incremental steps over a many years.
Paul would also write that the same power that resurrected Jesus is available to us. In Ephesians 1:17-20 he writes,
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead.”
Isn’t that astounding? God wants us to experience his resurrection power in our lives!
But how?
Spend time with Jesus. Quiet time. Alone time. He spent lots of alone time with God. But also invite Jesus into the normal parts of your day. Your routines. Your relationships. Invite him to work his resurrection power to bring new life to all you do. His love is for you. His heart desires what is best for you, for your family, your neighbors, this whole community and world. His heart is good.
Let me ask again: Are there areas of your life that are feeling dead? Areas where you long for new life? Maybe work. Maybe a relationship. Make it a prayer to invite his resurrection power in those areas. And then do what he did. He worked for healing, reconciliation, love, generosity, sacrifice. Give of yourself like he did.
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