Resurrection

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Romans 6:4 (NIV)

The core of strong spiritual living is attachment to and understanding of resurrection.

What proves and confirms God’s power is His ability to bring people back from dark and dead realities—whether physical, spiritual, emotional, or otherwise. If you want to measure how God is working in a person’s life, don’t look for signs and wonders floating around them. Look to the evidence of resurrection in their life. There is no miracle that is as confirming as the resurrection of a person’s life from a dead state to a living hope.

Don’t ever minimize the kingdom of God down to performance and demonstration because there can be no performance or demonstration that is stronger than God’s power to resurrect a human life that was once in meaningless existence but which God has raised to meaning and purpose.

This revelation is as relevant for us today as it was when Jesus walked this earth. We are not nurturing our spiritual lives to perform for people as if our religion is for entertainment purposes. We can’t measure each other’s spiritual relationship or strength on performance.

Instead, we are nurturing a spirituality that offers a huge revelation, and that revelation is this: God is gifting to every one of us a real path from death to resurrection.