Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”
I was reading the Word on Fire meditation on this scripture and I love the image of Jesus as a warrior whose final enemy is death. He goes further saying “It is easy to domesticate Jesus, presenting him as a kindly moral teacher. But that is not how the Gospels present him. He is a cosmic warrior who has come to do battle with those forces that keep us from being fully alive.”
Jesus wants us to live fully alive and break through the chains that bind us.
In the Gospels, Jesus constantly confronts the fallout of a world fixated on death—violence, hate, pride, division, hollow faith, and fake community. But the last and biggest challenge he faces is death itself.
Through Christ’s death and resurrection, we are to be Easter people where Alleluia is our song.
Smitten With Goodness 