Resurrection Reality
My last phone update something popped up about an AI feature. I think it was a message asking if I wanted to activate it or not. I just pressed “no.” Didn’t pay much attention to it. I’m not even sure if my phone is new enough to use a number of the AI tricks. Quick modifications of photos. More sophisticated suggestions on how to respond to messages. Detecting if you’re in a crash and calling for help. Even if I ignored AI in that moment, we know we’ll all have to pay more attention to it in the near future!
As AI grows, it will certainly become ever more difficult to determine reality. Is that a real photo? Did a real person send that message? Who really called me? It sounds like a voice I recognize, but I’m not sure.
Easter and the days that followed were real experiences with a person, Jesus Christ, who had died and was now alive. The women were the first to realize something very different and . . . . unexpected had happened that morning. 4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 6 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him (Mark 16:4-6).
All those who saw Jesus that day and in the weeks leading up to his ascension knew that Jesus was truly alive. They talked to him. They ate with him. They touched the wound marks in his hands. He lived who once was dead!
We have God’s promises in Scripture. We have hundreds of eyewitnesses. It was a reality for Jesus. It will be our reality too when we rise to meet our Lord, forgiven and saved through faith in him.