"When we say 'I believe in the Resurrection' - we are not saying that we offer our theoretical assent to the fact that God can do great miracles. When we say that we believe in the resurrection - we are claiming that our lives follow that pattern that echoes its way through Scripture. That we identify with Jesus in his death - his sacrifice, and his resurrection ministry.
If it seems as though God's purposes in us, and through us have been defeated - the resurrection suggests otherwise. God is in the business of healing, and forgiving and restoring. Of course, on our part this requires repentance, and humility - the capacity to be transformed.
But if we believe in the resurrection, our hope is invested not only in a God who will bring us through death to live in his presence, but in a God whose living presence transforms our present living.
If we believe in the resurrection, then by God's grace our lives - our spiritual, material, political, social lives, will be living evidence of that fact that God is in the business of transforming real people - healing, restoring, forgiving.
If we believe in the resurrection, it will beat its rhythm through our lives, as day by day we are transformed from one degree of glory to another, from one degree of Christ-reflecting-ness to another. If we believe in the resurrection, then our daily life will be the proof of it, because it will bear the fruit of it." (Revd Simon Perry)
This is a quote from an article I was reading on the internet written by a reverand, Simon Perry. I thought it was very well put that we do not simply believe in the resurrection; if we truly believe then we receive all that was provided for in the resurrection. Does His living presence transform your present living? It certainly does mine!
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