Our Final Hooray
by Charles R. Swindoll
What offers a widow braveness as she stands beside a contemporary grave? What’s the final hope of the handicapped, the abused, the burn sufferer? What’s the remaining reply to ache, mourning, senility, madness, terminal ailments, sudden calamities, and deadly accidents?
The reply to every of those questions is identical: the hope of bodily resurrection.
We draw power from this single fact virtually every single day of our lives—greater than we understand. It turns into the psychological glue that holds our in any other case shattered ideas collectively. Unimaginable although it could be for us to know the main points of how God goes to drag it off, we hold our hopes on fragile, threadlike ideas that say, “Sometime, He’ll make it proper,” and “Thank God, all this may change,” and “Once we’re with Him, we will be like Him.”
Quite a lot of instances a yr I look into pink, swollen eyes and remind the despairing and the grieving that “there is a land that’s fairer than day” the place, as John promised within the Revelation, “He shall wipe away each tear… there shall now not be any demise… any mourning or crying or ache… there shall now not be any curse… any night time… as a result of the Lord God shall illumine them; they usually shall reign eternally and ever” (21:4; 22:3, 5). Hooray for such wondrous hope!
Simply think about… those that are bodily disabled right this moment will sooner or later leap in ecstatic pleasure. Those that spend their lives absorbed in complete darkness will see each colour within the spectrum of sunshine. In reality, the very first face they’ll see would be the One who offers them sight!
There’s nothing just like the hope of resurrection to raise the agonizing spirits of the heavyhearted. However how can we all know for positive, some might ask. What offers us such assurance, such unshakable confidence? These questions have the identical reply:the actual fact of Christ’s resurrection.
As a result of He has been raised, we too shall rise! No surprise we get so excited each Easter! No surprise we maintain nothing again as we smile and sing and rejoice His miraculous resurrection from the grave!
Jesus Himself promised: “I’m the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will dwell even when he dies” (John 11:25).
Easter is a double-barreled celebration: His triumphant hurrah over agony and our final hooray of ecstasy.
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