For many in the world, the belief and teaching about the Lord’s resurrection is an irrational idea, hard to believe. If what the world believes about the Lord’s resurrection and ours in the future were true, then life would lose all its meaning. If this life is all that there is, just a few years of living, consider what Paul stated in his letter to the brethren in Corinth. “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable” (1 Corinthians 15:19 NKJV).
As we all know, springtime is resurrection time. Naturally, resurrection is not an irrational idea. We can see illustrations of resurrection all around us in nature. For example, two boys gathered cocoons they found in a swamp. The boys hung the dry, unattractive and motionless objects in a cool place for the winter. The following spring, they moved the cocoons to a place in the warm sun. Soon, there emerged from the tomb of one cocoon a gorgeous creature – a Luna moth. Its colors were indescribable as it stretched its wings. What they saw was amazing!
Why, then, should it be considered incredible that God’s Son would be raised from the dead and that His faithful will also be raised? Paul said to king Agrippa, “Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?” (Acts 26:8). If God could take some dust and breathe life into it to create a man (Genesis 2:7), why would anyone think it irrational for this same God to raise someone from the dead?
What’s also amazing is that because Jesus rose from the grave, we can be confident that our bodies will be changed and fashioned to be like His glorious body. According to Paul in Philippians 3:20-21, yes, one day, we will be like Him! “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.”
