“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die…” John 11:25
Christ is “the resurrection” for those who believe and are physically dead, and He is “the life” for those who believe and have not yet died. When Jesus asked Martha if she believed, she responded with words similar to the ones John used to describe the purpose of his book “Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name”. In order to have eternal life, a person must place his or her faith in Jesus, who is the Christ, the Son of God, who came into the world to bring eternal life to those who believe.
Jesus assures Martha that all who believe in Him, though they die physically, will live forever. Death is the consequence of sin and eventually takes everyone. No human being can overcome it. Comfort one another in the hope that even in the face of death, believers in Jesus Christ possess the sure promise of their own resurrection to everlasting life.
“Though they die” indicates that even those who die physically in faith will rise again to everlasting life. Obviously, physical death is no obstacle to the resurrection. Luther put it this way, “The cemetery or burial ground does not indicate a heap of the dead, but a field full of kernels, known as God’s kernels, which will verdantly blossom forth again and grow more beautifully than can be imagined”.
God’s blessings on your day…
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