He is Risen

A few people have told me they think I'm courageous for the way I'm facing a potentially life-threatening cancer. I don't feel courageous; I probably just lack the imagination to really believe that anything that bad could happen to me.

Yet underneath it all, I do have the firm conviction that if the worst happens and this cancer kills me, I will simply wake up in the presence my wonderful Saviour. Jesus has already gone ahead of me, from life, through death, to life eternal.

This is the triumph of Easter: our greatest hero has beaten our worst enemy.

"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Cor 15:55-57 NIV)