Reflection: Resurrected Saints

The greatest enemy of life is not death.

The greatest enemy of life (and sinister as all hell), is sin.

We’re jogged by that in three of the four gospel accounts of Jesus crucifixion.

As Jesus takes his last breath, the disciples record, dead bodies take a breath.

Get the point? At the very defeat of sin, the floodgates of New Life are opened!

Life’s greatest enemy is not death, but sin.

God can put decayed bodies back together with the wave of his little finger.

But the righteous removal of holy wrath cost the death of his Son. *

Dead saints are re-embodied! They’re walking around Jerusalem, appearing (to many) after Jesus’ resurrection. I guess they looked like angels — very human and maybe someone you’d have known. Whoever and whatever that looked like, it’s a foretaste of Christ’s New Kingdom. In these saints a seed was planted, but it took a holy sacrifice, for life — spiritual and physical — to bloom.

Prayer:

Washed in your precious blood help me to blamelessly worship you and faithfully serve you, Lord Jesus. And bring me, with all your saints, into the joy of your eternal kingdom. All this we ask through your Son Jesus Christ: By him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, now and forever. AMEN. **

*John Piper

**Anglican Prayer Book