Today was a teary day and my friend encouraged me. We talked about Jesus saying that he IS the resurrection and the life after his friend Martha cried, “If you had been here my brother would not have died.” She knew her brother would rise at the last day, at the resurrection, but she had not tied that to Jesus who is the resurrection. My friend asked, “How did Martha know?” Biblegateway.com does not reference “resurrection” being mentioned in the Old Testament. I jokingly responded that there must have been two trains of religious thought because there were Sadducees (religious scholars who were sad-you-see because they did not believe in the resurrection, in after life) and Pharisees who did believe that God was the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob who were alive in “the bosom of Abraham.” My friend referred me to Matthew West’s song, “Wonderful Life.”
It’s a ballad about a man who has ALS who embraces the highs and lows of life but he confesses that even though this life is hard, this life is not all there is. There is resurrection where he’ll be listening to the ballad being sung by his friend.
Resurrection is a reality of a life after death that we look forward to but it is also a reality that breaths hope into today. The song encouraged me and I pray it will encourage you. Blessings.
On the Way to Wonder 