Shockwave: Resurrection Edition

A week out from Resurrection Sunday, let's turn our gaze back to that empty tomb, to the power that raised Jesus from the dead; a power that far exceeds anything made on this earth because that same power is available to you! The most powerful nuclear explosion to date occurred on October 30, 1961, when the 'Tsar Bomba' was detonated by the USSR on a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It was a 50 megaton blast, equivalent to 50 million tons of TNT. Just to put that into perspective, that's enough freight trains fully loaded with TNT to stretch 28,000 kilometres, or nearly three-quarters of the way around the equator. As a former army officer, I've seen what a conventional bomb dropped from a plane can do. Let me tell you, it's terrifying. But 50 megatons? That's inconceivable! But the resurrection power available to anyone who believes in Jesus is way, way bigger than that. Writes the Apostle Paul, I pray that you would know … Ephesians 1:19-20 … what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. (ESV) A transliteration of "immeasurable greatness of his power" would sound something like this … the hyper-ballistic, megathonic, dynamite power … Not hype, not theory, but the power available to anyone who believes in Jesus to live the life He's called them to live; to become all that He made them to be. And … God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. That's His Word. Fresh … for you … today.