When we celebrated my granddaughter’s birthday we debated if she had really yet gained another year. It involved the actual time she was born and it was generally focused on giving her a hard time. She wanted to stop riding in the child’s safety seat and we kept telling her it wasn’t time yet.
The resurrection is not a matter of minutes. It is a matter of eternity, before and after, a total change. We don’t have a time that Jesus rose from the dead. If you look at what the scholars tell us we don’t even know the year, but we do know it happened.
Another important difference between a birthday and the resurrection is that you get older automatically but you don’t get the promise unless you are saved. The hope of the resurrection is not just that your body will rise from the grave but that is you believe in Jesus it will be raised to eternal life in Him.
Our celebration has two major factors. First, we rejoice. We have life everlasting. Second, we share and hope that if you have not believed it would cause you to stop and think.
He is risen.
He is risen indeed.
homo unius libri
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