Father, Into Your Hands

April 24, 2018

Father, Into Your Hands

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life.”

John 11:25a

The resurrection is not some future event that will happen some day; the resurrection is a person. When Jesus spoke these words to his friend Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life,” Jesus was affirming that as God’s Messiah, he was bringing the future hope of God’s restored Kingdom to a present reality. How are we to understand Jesus’ words in our lives today?

The Apostle Paul made these words of Jesus the very ground of his hope in God. In the magnificent third chapter of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, Paul wrote, “I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.” “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection . . . becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead” (Philippians 3:8, 10-11 NRSV). Paul believed that the doorway to eternal life, to attaining resurrection from the dead, was through knowing Jesus and becoming like Jesus in his own death. Is that even possible for us mere mortals?

Yes it is!

My Takeaway: Because the resurrection is the person of Jesus, we, like Paul, want to regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus our Lord. (More on this thought tomorrow!)

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.