Daily Devotion - Friday, April 15, 2016
What if Christians actually started living as if Jesus really was raised from the dead? "Leon," you might be thinking, "I thought that's what Christians believed--that Jesus was raised from the dead." To which I would reply, "You're right. Or maybe half-right. Because there's a big difference between saying you believe something, and actually believing it. Think about sitting down for breakfast and staring at your bacon and eggs. The chicken participated in your breakfast offering. The pig was committed to it. How many of us live our lives with the kind of commitment that we ought to have if we truly believed that Jesus walked out of the tomb? But instead we tend to participate in this notion rather than being committed to it. We make polite overtures to the Resurrection, but we don't go all-in with the kind of transformational, all-encompassing kind of belief in the risen Jesus that changes us... our lives...