Living God’s Resurrection Life

What is resurrection life? What does it mean when Jesus says “I am the resurrection and the life”? What does resurrection life look like in our lives? How do we have resurrection life? What would it look like if we lived Jesus’ resurrection life today?

We all need God’s life for us. We are all called to live, to live eternally, and to live abundantly.

God has designed us for eternity and has gifted each of us eternal life in him, which begins now. We can go through life resigned to our sin dead lives, which leads to eternal death, or we can go through life seeking God’s life and living God’s eternal life for us now.

In the major prophet Ezekiel, God showed Ezekiel a valley of dry and dead bones. God asked the prophet Ezekiel this question, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And Ezekiel answered, “O Lord God, you know” (Ezekiel 37:3, ESV).

God then told Ezekiel to speak life over the dead bones so that they would live again. So Ezekiel prophesied to the dry bones as God commanded him, and “the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army” (Ezekiel 37:10, ESV).

God desires to bring life out of death. God desires to make the dead to come alive. God desires each of us to live resurrection life.

The Lord God promised life to Ezekiel and to Israel, his chosen people, saying, “Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord” (Ezekiel 37:12-14, ESV).

Later in the Bible, in John’s gospel account, we hear Jesus echoing this promise of God at the death of his friend Lazarus, saying to his sister Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26, ESV).

God is able to bring life from dead bones and God is able to give us his resurrection life when we have fallen into sin and death. God promises resurrection life to everyone who puts their trust in him. This resurrection life begins right now for every follower of Jesus who is willing to receive his eternal life.

Living the resurrection life begins when we place our trust and faith in Jesus, who is the resurrection and the life. When we place our sin dead dry bones into the hands of our living God, he breathes his Spirit into us so that we come alive in him and live his eternal resurrection life.

May we live the resurrection life that God intends for us as we place our sin dead lives in his trust and care as he breathes new life into us and reveals himself to us as our resurrection and life.

A Collect for the Fifth Sunday in Lent: Passion Sunday: “Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of this world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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