The resurrection of Jesus Christ is either utter nonsense or the most profound thing ever to happen in the history of the world. Many people live to call it nonsense. Some people live in the manifest glory of that divine reality. Those of us who have believed in Jesus and responded to the call of this resurrected Christ consider it to be the best decision we ever made.

John Henry Jowett writes that "Everything is transfigured in the Risen Christ. Everything is lit up when 'the Sun of Righteousness arises with healing in His wings.' Life is lit up, and so is death, and so are sorrow and daily labour and human friendships! Everything catches the gleam and is changed. 'We are no longer of the night, but of the day.' 'Walk as children of light.' 'Awake, thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.'”[1]

Have you caught "the gleam?" Has the glory of God in the face of Christ captured your imagination and captivated your living? Have you let the majesty of this One who died that you might live embrace you in the grace and mercy of God? Have you allowed the Living Christ to enter into the ebb and flow of your life and set you free deep down inside your life where nobody lives but you?

Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. Based on this we believe everybody ought to know who Jesus is, why He came, and how He saves. He is God's response to the deepest needs of the human heart, and He lives to bring abundant life.

In the film, "The Shawshank Redemption," one of the characters says to another, "Get busy living, or get busy dying." I like that; and, I, for one, have chosen to "get busy living." God is too good to do otherwise.

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[1] John Henry Jowett, My Daily Meditation, April 10