A Reflection On Resurrection

When I think of my true identity

God’s people are called a lot of things in Scripture, including sinners, sheep without a shepherd, blind, lost, and idolatrous. But none of that matters when someone meets Christ. We are in a new category of creation. We are now “children of the resurrection” (Luke 20:36).

When we’re kicking ourselves for past failures, we need only look at the resurrection of Jesus and know that we are new children. When all the world surrounds us with its pettiness, bitterness, and rage, we can live in a transcendent way, with our hope and all of our values fixed firmly above the mess. When we are sitting at the deathbed of a loved one, or even lying in our own, we can remember the empty grave and know that no child of the Resurrection is contained by it.

Children of the Resurrection can stand out for their vitality, their hope, their faith, their way of life and love. We are members of a new creation. Remember that when you encounter the old one.

They are children of God and children of the resurrection.

Luke 20:36