Easter tells us that God can raise anything that we can kill, including ourselves.

If we feel dead inside, it’s likely because we’ve been on a killing rampage most of our lives. But we must remember that God is on a resurrection rampage as well, and He’s bent on taking that rampage right to the center of everything inside of us that we killed.

God allows us to believe that something can’t be done so that He can show us how our ‘can’t’ is always His ‘can.

Death is God’s opportunity, not our end.

If we live solely within the scope of our sorely limited humanity, the word ‘end’ will mean nothing other than what it says. But if we dare to live within the scope of God’s eternal promises, every time the word ‘end’ appears the word ‘beginning’ will be hot on its heels.

What’s so hard about believing in miracles? Afterall, aren’t miracles simply the things that we said couldn’t be done? And I must confess that I am far too small to be the authority on what can or can’t be done.

I would ask two questions. The first is, “How is that which is dead within me any different from anything else that God has raised from the dead?” And the second question would be, “How is His passion to raise the dead within me any different than His passion to raise anything else that He has raised?” And the answer to both is “It is not and it is not.” So, am I ready to be raised or am I not?

I don’t know if you’ve ever thought about this before, but if death is beaten, so is everything else. And because God set His sights on beating death, we can build our lives on achieving anything.

A dead man walking out of a tomb utterly obliterates all of our tediously constructed paradigms about life. And in pondering what God did that morning, maybe we need to ask if our paradigms are, in fact, the very tombs that you and I need to walk out of.