To
construe the resurrection as God's plan for a holy raid/rescue at some distant
- but probably in our lifetime - point in the future is to miss its
transformative power altogether. It is to limit God's holy purposes to a
divine, exasperated do-over.
The power
of resurrection is here and now, between people who love each other, as well as
people who despise one another. It opens the possibility for us to accept
forgiveness as God's gift every day, and to reflect grace, even and especially
in the places and relationships where we have been ignored or maligned.
If all
you have is a heavenly air-bag deployment to snatch you from the jaws of
destruction somewhere down the road, but nothing to let grace leak from your
broken places into the cracked lives of others, then you might want to dig a
little deeper into the canister of faith. I don't think you've made it past the packing peanuts.
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