In Jesus there are no sunsets; they are
all sunrises. He is the “bright and morning star” -- not the evening star. He
heralds the dawn -- not the dark. Rufus
Mosely, a layman, called on to conduct a funeral, went to the New Testament to
see how Jesus conducted a funeral and found that “Jesus did not conduct
funerals. He conducted resurrections.” This, that I have in Jesus, does not have
the feel of a funeral upon it; it has the feel of a resurrection…
A noted New Testament scholar says the “the
“ can be omitted in both cases -- “I am resurrection,” not “the resurrection;” “I
am life,” not “I am the life.” He was and is “the resurrection,” His own, but
He is more. He is the principle and power of resurrection. If you have Jesus,
you have resurrection. He is resurrecting your mind, your body, your spirit,
your hopes, your outlook, your everything. In Him you are resurrected now. I
shall salute the resurrection of my body as an old friend: “I’ve known you all
my life. For life has been one long glorious resurrection. Welcome, friend, I
knew you would come.”
-- Adapted from E. Stanley Jones in “A Song of Ascents”
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