There is No Escaping Death, Unless You Are God

1 Peter 1:21

Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.

This is the centerpiece of God’s greatest power in our lives, the ability to raise from the dead.  It is a circular thing to consider.  Through Jesus, trust comes to God.  That trust goes to the God who raised Jesus from the dead.  Through the risen Jesus, trust comes to God.

We do not do well with death in our culture.  No culture has an easy time with death, but for many, it is more integrated into the cycle of life than in ours.  It was a telling conversation I had with the owners of a funeral home.  More families are not even conducting the most basic ‘funeral rites’, but simply want the body put under the ground with no memorial nor remembrance, no reminder that death is inevitable to us all.

Death is inevitable.  There is no way to escape it.  Of all the things we can do to conquer nature and build the world up in our own image, death is still going to come for us all.  But the power of God is that God can and has broken that cycle.  He broke that cycle with his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

In our faith, we trust in Jesus who was raised from the dead.  Through him we trust in a God who will raise us to new life, where death is no more.  It is the promise of life eternal.