Just the Beginning
I’m just gonna let Paul say it today, because it’s better than anything I could write. Real perspective -- eternal perspective -- is more valuable now than ever, and this morning there is just a single question running through my head:
Are you living with resurrection in mind?
If resurrection is real, not even death is final. Only God’s victory. If death can’t separate us from God, then nothing can. So we are without justification when we treat people like lost causes. If God pursues us past death, we can love others when they fail us.
If resurrection is real, we live with deep intentionality, knowing that we won’t come to end of our lives only to meet nothingness. We will meet GOD. Hedonism befits nihilism; people who know there is more to this life live with the knowledge that sin matters (1 Cor. 15:32-34). But we live with a taste of eternity even now.
And last, if resurrection is real: every other task and call pales in comparison to the “first importance” of the Gospel speaking loud through your life. There is no such thing as true vocation apart from this mission and goal.
Especially now, while people are afraid and uncertain, you have been given the solution to death and fear: Jesus died to completely handle our separation from God, and He came back to life after that because He killed death itself. This is first importance, of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, and of our own lives
Your life now, with all its anxiety and all its problems, is merely the beginning of the eternity Jesus won for you. I hope you find rest here, and energy from knowing you are already safe. I hope it empowers you (all of us) to live without fear and in wild freedom, sharing the beautiful life you’ve found with everyone you encounter. I hope it makes all of us into that kind of evangelist.