Easter Sunday - The Resurrection of the Lord

He saw and believed. That's all John says about the beloved disciple at the empty tomb. He saw the burial cloths, the folded head cloth, the absence. And he believed.

This is the central claim of Christianity: a dead man is alive. Not metaphorically. Not spiritually. Actually, bodily alive. The tomb is empty not because someone moved the body but because the body moved itself.

If this is true, it changes everything. Death is not permanent. Suffering is not the last word. The grave is not the end. The God who entered time to save it has beaten the one enemy no one else could beat.

If this is not true, then Paul says it plainly: we are the most pitiable people of all. Christianity stands or falls on the empty tomb.

In your twenties, you're deciding what to build your life on. The resurrection is either the foundation or it isn't. If it is, then seek what is above. Think of what is above. Live differently. Not because you're better than anyone. Because death lost, and that changes the math on everything.

Happy Easter. He is risen. Now live like it.