And Yet, He Lives!

For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.  2 Corinthians 13:4

The great verse we have studied several times in the past couple of weeks has that one thing we must do, believe. This faith begins with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus in that we believe the testimony of those who saw the risen Lord. As He rose up to be with the Father until that time of His return, we are to wait in faith for His return. Central to that waiting is faith in His living. How could we live with Him, as Paul promises to us in our verse for today, if He did not live? And how could we believe in His return, such as we find in the first part of John 14, if we did not first believe in His life after the tomb? We must believe in all of Him, or we have a chain that falls apart. Fortunately for us, Paul shows that our weakness is not the central factor here, but the power of God. As Jesus lives by the power of God, so we live with Him by that same force. We live with Him because He lives! 

God's power and grace lives in you this day!

Bucky