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 The meaning of Christ's resurrection 
in our lives

What does the resurrection of Christ mean to you personally?

Asking you this question, I'm not inventing something new. It has been asked for the last two millennia. Among those who raised it, was St Paul. He put it in a different way and provided his own answers to it. Here is how he phrased his argument: "Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead?" (1Cor 15: 12)

The same unbelief can be generated even today. We live surrounded with so much unbelief, the main stumbling block being, the question of the RESURRECTION. Many non-Christian people couldn't understand it, and as a result of it, they limit life only until the grave. But they are not alone in their unbelief. They have some allies in the people who count themselves as Christians but who don't believe in the resurrection. This sort of faith, in reality, lack of faith, has grave consequences on one's life morally, psychologically and spiritually. Two stories I read in a book could make this point very clear. John Buckeridge in his "100 Instant Discussion Starters" recounts the story of two different Americans regarding their decisions to freeze their bodies and brains for many centuries in the hope of getting better treatment to defeat death.

"A 47-year-old American suffering from a brain tumour wanted to put his head into cold storage for 500 years until a cure came along.

"Tom Donaldson, a computer engineer with a PhD in physics, told newspaper reporters he also plans to freeze his cat and wife in suspended animation. Cryonics is the science of freezing people- or just their heads- in liquid nitrogen after their death, in the hope that one day they can be thawed out and cured of what killed them. Legal in America, there are already scores of complete bodies and heads in the US laboratories.

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