After a long winter...daffodills! Photo by Robin Jernigan :)
Resurrection Ground!
Spring comes and then it goes. However, after a long winter this glorious season is a reminder that there is a Spring coming for the believer in Christ that will never go away! Just when things look the bleakest, the coldest, the most difficult, the ground will give birth. We can see it symbolically in the daffodills here. And even in the example of daffodills, it is God who causes them to spring up! And it is God who will cause mortal bodies to come back to life.
This is what Easter, which we just celebrated, is all about! Not only did Christ rise again, but all who believe in Him will also rise!
When Christ comes back, all those who have died trusting Christ for salvation, their mortal bodies having been buried, will burst forth from the cursed ground alive, with new glorified bodies! Here is how it is described in 1Corinthians 15:50-58:
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
The song for April is called Resurrection Ground. It is available as a free download here. We hope it blesses those of you who are believers in Christ, and also encourages those who have not to ask the Lord to show you the way of salvation available only in His only begotten Son!
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