Since the Church’s earliest years, believers have rejoiced in a sublimely simple statement: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
That is no mere objective truth. This ancient truth has now become our truth. The gospel makes it personal. Paul insisted in his letter to the Roman Christians that ‘if we have been united with [Christ] in a death like His, we will certainly also be united with Him in a resurrection like His’ (Rom. 6:5). In other words, where He goes, we go.
Of course, we cannot take credit for that. Only He can make it happen. Only He can make a valley of dry bones breathe. Only He can make those dead in sin live and breathe in the pure robes of heaven.
