Jesus Resurrection = Life

My Utmost for His Highest April 8th—His Resurrection Destiny

April 8th

His resurrection destiny

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? Luke 24:26.

Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the risen Lord His very life.

Our Lord’s Resurrection destiny is to bring “many sons unto glory.” The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We are never in the relationship to God that the Son of God is in; but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When Our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before; and His resurrection means for us that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body, but we can know now the efficacy of His resurrection and walk in newness of life. “I would know Him in the power of His resurrection.”

Easter is a celebration of life. It is a celebration of Jesus rising from the dead but beyond that it is a celebration that now we can have eternal life through Christ.

This is why Jesus came. This is why he became a man. He came to suffer and die in our place. He paid the price for our sin. He rose from the dead, conquering death and making eternal life available to all men.

The Bible says that if we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths the Lord Jesus we will be saved.