Resurrection Here and Now
Resurrection Here and Now
An Easter Monday Meditation
On that first Easter morning God’s new world began. The old world is still with us, still dying, but the new world is here too; the age to come has already begun!
Or as G.K. Chesterton put it…
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of a gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.
But what of it? Or as Francis Schaeffer might put the question, how should we then live? Read more