EASTER: It’s not because you can’t…it’s because you won’t!

A customer walked into my clothing shop and asked to see the pants that were advertised in the paper that day. “We don’t have an ad in the paper today,” I told her. She insisted I was wrong, so I got a copy of the paper, and we went through it, eventually landing on an ad for pants from another local store. Exasperated, the customer glared at me and said, “In my newspaper, the ad was for this store!” [source: Edward Oppenheimer, rd.com].

So much of what we do in life is not about what is possible or impossible. It is about what we will allow to be possible! Too many times we try to change our reality based on what we want! 

This day proves that what many believe is impossible – living after death – is possible! It also proves there is one thing impossible!

Consider: 

John 11:17–45 When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days…Jesus…arrived at the tomb…“Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them…Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out.

Luke 8:41-56 There came a man named Jairus…he began to implore Him to come to his house; for he had an only daughter…and she was dying…someone came from the synagogue, saying, “Your daughter has died…Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but Jesus said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died. He, however, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Child, arise!” And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. 

Consider again: What was impossible was possible! What was considered beyond hope encountered the God of Hope! 

This is the reality - All Possible Because of the Resurrection. This same Truth also does make one thing impossible:

Salvation and fruitful life without Christ!

1 John 5:11–13 And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life. 

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 

John 15:5  “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing.

The “So What”: Will you consider what Jesus did for you? Will you live based on circumstances this world gives you, or by choices you make? Will you include God in those decisions? Are you in relationship with your Creator?