The Remaking of Reality

We talked in worship yesterday of the resurrection, of how the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead remakes reality. It is astonishing.

I am reading through Ron Martoia's fantastic book, Transformational Architecture: Reshaping Our Lives as Narrative. In it, he quotes C.S. Lewis, from Mere Christianity.

"[God] said (in the Bible) that we were 'gods' and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him - for we can prevent Him, if we choose - He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness. The process will be long and in parts very painful; but that is what we are in for."

This is the astonishing power of the God that was at work in raising Christ from the dead and is now at work in us, too. Or as Paul wrote to the church in Rome:

"It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's." (The Message)

Do we believe this?

Comments

[Mark Wampler]

Hey Tim,
Thanks for the shoutout several weeks ago. Appreciated that. Have you had a chance to listen to the album? On your post, I was hit by what Bob Russell formerly the pastor of SouthEast church said in an interview in a book that I have been reading. He says, "If Jesus came back from the grave, that's kind of the bottom-line issue for everything don't you think? If he came back from the grave, he's got answers I don't have."

[Josh Fillingham]

Thanks for this last Sunday. It led to some really good conversation between Kristin and I. The idea that God is re-creating through Easter is very comforting to me. Thanks again.