Resurrection calls us to a transformed being

“When the fullness of time had come” (Galatians 4:4) God was seen as one of us, touching reality as it is for us all. Among us the “human One” grew day by day, going through what life entails, including pain and suffering, and, as any other man, he died. That is the story of every human being, your story and my story, with the difference that the one who “appeared as man” (Philippians 2:8), after he died, he rose again.

This difference changed the story of humanity. Since death did not keep him there, the burial “in a new tomb” (Matthew 27:60) was not like any other burial. That tomb was not the place to see the decay of a body returning to dust from where it came. That particular tomb, for a time, was a womb. And from that womb a resurrected body was brought forth.

And I thought… this is the pattern we go through continuously in our lives as we grow. Every new beginning, every new reality, every event or experience that leads to transformation has the same process.

Think about that. Look back in your life and recall those moments that changed your life. They all began with hard time, deep pain, internal struggle and an experience that feels like dying. Then, for a moment, time seems to stop. And what happens afterwards is a new birth. And you are not the same. The time between death and resurrection, the old self and the new self, is like the time in the womb.

Most of us are scared of this. Most will resist such a change. And most of us will never grow, as this process will never occur. However, every new experience that brings transformation feels likes dying in the beginning, then there is this gap of waiting (the womb) and after that a new beginning (resurrection).

Thus the experience of Christ becomes your experience as well. Hallelujah!