We’ve been exploring themes of newness and the eighth day, which connects to resurrection.
What is resurrection?
Simply put, resurrection is the undoing of death—you were dead, and now you’re not.
We celebrate Jesus’s resurrection at Easter and every Sunday, remembering that he was dead and now lives.
We look forward to our own resurrection when, though we will die, we will live again.
The wages of sin is death, but God intervened. Jesus stepped into our place, lived the perfect life, died, and rose again.
As we’ve been united to him in a death like his, we’ll be united to him in a resurrection like his.
This promise comes through baptism, where the old Adam drowns and we’re resurrected from the waters. We’re made new, redeemed, and renewed daily.
We have confidence that at the last day, we’ll experience the resurrection of the dead.
This will be a bodily resurrection.
The marriage feast of the Lamb isn’t just a spiritual experience — it’s bodily.
Jesus had a body when he died and when he rose (he still bears the wounds). When he ascended, he kept that body.
The incarnation doesn’t end, Jesus still has a body, and we’ll be resurrected with ours.
This reminds us that your life and body matter now. They’re gifts from God that you’ll carry into eternity.
We can confidently say, “I am God’s child, and nothing can undo that.”
We look forward to fully experiencing what that means in the life to come.
Don’t fear death; it’s been defeated. Don’t wish for it, but don’t fear it.
When earthly life ends, we anticipate a more glorious dawn when the resurrection happens and God gathers all his children for the feast that will not end.
Contributor Deaconess Emma Heinz serves as the Registrar of Higher Things.
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