To hope in Christ only
for the next life is just as pitiable as to hope in Christ "only for this
life..." To hope only for the future is to reduce the resurrection to a
reward or some sort of panacea for the pain of the present. But the hope of the
resurrection has as much to do with the way one lives in this life as whatever
life we will live in the next. The death that came through Adam is still a very
real enemy that seeks to limit not just our mortal life but our spiritual life
as well so that we never fully live the freedom that came out of the empty tomb
with Jesus. But because Jesus died for all and rose above the boundary imposed
by Adam’s rebellion we are free to live as those who have “already passed from
death to life.” (John 5:24) If by faith I am confident that the forever future
imagined by God is a done deal then I am free to live as if death has already
been destroyed. A life that anticipates resurrection is as much a resurrected
life as the life that awaits us.
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