Easter is Resurrection—His and ours.

While we face various difficulties and sometimes become depressed because of them, we, as followers of Jesus, can say without hesitation that ultimately the victory is ours.  We know we have won.  Because Jesus has won!

Can you possibly imagine the feelings of His close followers, those who loved Him and were sometimes confused by what He said and did, but still loved Him, and who saw Him arrested and then from a distance watched Him die, by inches.  A sob, a cry, a breath that He couldn’t fully take, blood dripping from His hands—they watched Him die.  And they hid and stuck together and passed that Sabbath with no joy or hope, and then the next day, some had already left and others were planning to leave, when suddenly He blew them away—by showing up alive!

Can you possibly imagine their feelings?  It took them awhile to figure it out—hours, days, weeks, maybe longer.  But they finally realized that He had won.  And that with Him, they would win.

That’s us!  WE WILL WIN!  And so there can be no reason not to reach out to the undesirables, to HIS undesirables, to His poor and to His vulnerable and to His hungry, to His undocumented and to His exploited and to His strangers.  They are His, they are Him.  And so they will win too.