Everything that God does is nothing that He needs done, for He is eternally complete. Yet, He is never still and He is forever working. Therefore, I am left with both the conviction and the evidence that God’s agenda is nothing other than that which is incomplete in you and I.

What if the empty tomb was simply God saying that the miracle that happened there is just a foretaste of the miracles that can happen within us? And if that’s the case, nothing within us is really dead. Rather, it’s just a bunch of stuff waiting its turn to stand up and breathe again.

Rule #1 - Put God at the center of everything. Rule #2 – Repeat. Rule #3 – Repeat after repeating.

Death precariously hangs a few scant inches over our heads, having been methodically placed there one piece at a time by a lifetime of choices that we have made. And until we understand the gravity of what hangs but a breath away, we will not understand why Jesus hung on a cross to sweep it all away.

God did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief in us.

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.