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The Surprise Ending of Resurrection

Easter reminds us that even though injustice may run rampant at present — even though it appears that darkness is pervasive and final — we know God is working, that his love is greater and that resurrection is real.

As the morning came on the third day, a sun-cast freshness burst on the scene to reveal a subversive hope that thrusts us into a new story, one that rests on the work of Christ — a grassroots grace that upends every injustice.

Through the brilliant light of the resurrection we can walk in newness of life.

At a time when the Caesars of our day still claim to rule and injustice seems commonplace, the revolutionary hope of new life springs up in our hearts as we embrace the promise of Christ and experience the call of an extreme God to believe.

This new way, this subversive hope, is a call to live counter to the mainstream tendencies of darkness and selfishness and to embrace the resurrection life. In this, we not only celebrate the story of Easter, but we join it as ones who have received an unspeakable gift.

As Miraslov Volf says in his book Free of Charge

“When Christ died on the tree of shame outside the gates of Jerusalem, God bore our sin, and we were both condemned as sinners and separated from our sin, and in our lives, God lives somewhere unfathomably deep within us — behind our faculties of knowing and willing — and swallows up our sin and transforms our lives.”

This transformation through Christ is our twist in the story — our aha moment. Through Christ, we continue to live out the resurrection life in our own generation — continuing the subversive plot that God initiated in Christ.

So this Easter, relive the surprise ending; relive the story with a fresh passion for the genuine hope that we embrace. Relive the reality of a risen Lord and new life.

May this hope continue to paint our future in every possible way.