The Power of Resurrection

The great Christian holidays — Christmas, Good Friday or Easter—are not only occasions to remember miraculous events from the past, but times when we are meant to be spiritually renewed, and strengthened in what we believe. This is especially true at Easter, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the greatest event of our Christian faith.

In some ways, the significance of Easter can be compared to God’s creation of the world. What does this mean? We humans cannot truly create. We can use what already exists—build electric cars, or turn paint into art—but only God can create life itself.

We stand just as powerless before death. We may extend life for a time, but there is no love and no medical science that can reverse death. And yet something like this happened at Easter: someone who truly died was raised to life. The impossible happened. The divine power behind this is beyond our imagination.

We might say the first Christians had it easier—they witnessed it themselves. For us, believing in the resurrection feels harder. We want to believe, but science and experience seem to argue against it.

Still, even if the world smiles at this, we confess that Jesus truly rose from the dead on the third day. Even if all human knowledge calls it impossible—this is what happened. This is the heart of faith.

How can we accept this? By admitting that the world is greater than our understanding. Consider that humans share nearly all their DNA with chimpanzees—only about a one percent difference. Yet that one percent allows humans to build smartphones and send thousands of satellites into space. Imagine a being just one percent more intelligent than us—how limited our understanding would seem to them. How much more is there that we do not understand?

With humility, we acknowledge that Jesus is more than we can explain, and that the resurrection can be true even if we cannot comprehend it. The apostles did not explain the resurrection either; they simply bore witness to it. We cannot prove it, but we experience its power when we take steps toward God in faith and discover that God truly works in this world.

Why does this matter so much? Because without the power of the resurrection, Christian life cannot truly be lived. Beautiful ideas about how we should live have always existed, but we have never had the strength to live them out on our own. Christianity is not merely a noble ideal—it goes far beyond human strength.

Who among us can live with Christlike love, humility, faithfulness, and service by our own power? It is a superhuman task—and rightly so. It does not depend on our strength, but on Christ’s power at work within us. God does not only call us to a better life; He gives us the strength to live it. And then everything begins to change.

To live with Jesus means to be transformed by the same power that raised Him from the dead—the power that can change people, relationships, families, and lives. Believing in the resurrection means stepping into God’s world of transforming power.

This is what makes the Christian life so remarkable: we constantly face problems beyond our strength, yet they are resolved through Jesus. Just like the women who worried about who would roll the stone away from the tomb—when they arrived, the stone was already moved. God had intervened.

Let us simply begin the journey with Jesus. Along the way, we will discover that the risen Christ goes before us—His resurrection power guiding us, sustaining us, and one day carrying us even through death itself.

May faith in the resurrection shape our lives into something more beautiful, more complete, and more meaningful—with Christ here and forever with Him beyond.

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SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 24:1-12

24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they remembered his words.

9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.