The Tomb of Life

Since Adam and Eve’s fall to sin in the Garden of Eden, humanity had been waiting for the day when the serpent’s head would be crushed. As life conquered death, Jesus proved that He is more than a man. This event fulfilled Jesus’ whole mission of coming to earth. Death was defeated by life and the mystery of how God was going to restore His relationship with humanity had been unveiled. 

God is alive and even a rich man’s tomb couldn’t contain Him.

By breaking the chains of death, God offers us new life. And once we receive this new life, we cannot live for ourselves, we have to live for Him who lives. This is the Gospel — we become the most alive when we are living selflessly. We serve a God who gives. God gave the earth its life when He created it, and mankind threw that away, allowing death to rule the world of life God made. But God continued to give, so much so, that He gave His life away to death — even death on a cross. But nothing is greater than God; death is not greater than God’s life. 

His life was returned to Him because giving does not take away from an infinite God. 

And by doing this, God gives us new life even though we threw away our life for sin. We must let ourselves die as Christ died on the cross, but we cannot stop there, we must also put on our new life in Christ as He put on life at the empty tomb. “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10b (NKJV)

We can become fully alive because Jesus is alive.

The abundant life that God gives us draws us into a partnership with Him as He gives His life to us. We, in turn, must refuse to become a proverbial stagnant pond and give our lives to others as we complete this cycle of life-giving life. Only things that are alive can give, and if anything stops giving and producing, it dies. The way to keep our lives alive is to continually give as we produce things that are outside of ourselves.