Resurrecton-Defined Life

Just a few Easter thoughts……

In the Bible I am reading there is a note which says that the seven questions in Romans 8:31-35 ‘bring the whole field of spiritual formation into sharp focus. This life is about God at work on an inconceivably vast scale, embracing all of creation, all of history.’ Here are the questions to ponder:

1. What then are we to say to these things?…..

2. If God is for us, who can be against us?

3. He who did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up on behalf of us all —is it possible that, having given us His Son, He would not give us everything else too?

4. So who will bring a charge against God’s chosen people? Certainly not God—He is the one who causes them to be considered righteous.

5. Who punishes them? Certainly not the Messiah, who died and —more than that—has been raised, is at the right hand of God and is actually pleading on our behalf!

6. Who will separate us from the love of God?

7. Will trouble? hardship? persecution? hunger? poverty? danger? war?

These are some things to think deeply about this Easter. What do you say about these things? If we live believing these things  that changes the foundation of our lives and we are now resurrection-defined, not defined by the secularism of this world. The whole world is ‘robust’ with God’s eternal love from which nothing can separate us. This is the resurrection world in which we live as followers of Jesus.

Jesus Christ is God’s will personified, God’s word embodied. That God would become a human, enter the world and be put to death by humans, and that this would be celebrated 2010 years later shows the world changing power of God’s will.

In my Journal Father said:

“My will is in effect, always and continually. My will for you is that you would know Me and that you be conformed into Christ-likeness because Christ is in union with you now—the strongest link there ever could be between God and man. We are linked now and this was my plan. First I created you and then I gave birth to you. In creation I put you together in your mother’s womb. In birth I went through agony for you, death and resurrection, bringing you with me into the New Life. This Easter weekend, you celebrate your new birth along with and as an integral part of My resurrection.”

Lets celebrate: laugh and sing and be delighted because God has called us His own!