Resurrections are Everywhere

Last week my husband announced, “I have a confession.”

Uh-oh. That’s never good.

“I forgot to take the trash out…two weeks in a row. Um, now there are things growing in it.”

Gross, but forgivable. 

Alas, things decay. It’s a fact of life. Trash has to go out. Fridges have to be cleaned out. Bacteria and fungi work their magic in our compost piles.

Have you ever loved a t-shirt or a blanket so much that eventually all that remained were shreds of fabric?

Have you ever driven through a decaying small town?

Harder still…have you ever watched a relationship decay, a friendship, or a marriage, left alone far too long, deteriorating slowly in discontent, loneliness, and inattention?

Decay, deterioration, is a very real part of life; God will even use it for a purpose, but we were never meant to live in it. It’s the broken-down reality of a world sieged by sin, but not left alone.

Instead, our God gives us something different –

He gives Hope. He gives Life,

Resurrection Life.

In our decay, our God reaches down and offers restoration.

Resurrections are everywhere.

Look around you. Resurrections are in our plants and trees, in our relationships, in children growing and creating new families. Resurrection is happening every day inside of me—making me new every day, giving me a fresh start, whispering forgiveness to my broken heart, handing me eternity in this day and for tomorrow too.

The resurrected life looks and feels like Hope.

Think of those who do not know Jesus—the hopelessness of this world so full of violence, every new act of destruction a gaping wound, waiting for an answer from something, someone out there.

I want—no, I need—that Hope, in my life, every day. Hope that breathes redemption into my lungs instead of disappointment:

Job 19:25-26 –

For I know that my Redeemer lives,
    and at the last he will stand upon the earth.
 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
    yet in my flesh I shall see God…

Resurrections are everywhere in the Word.

There isn’t just one resurrection, my friends. There aren’t even just four accounts of the same resurrection. There are many resurrections in Scripture. So many in fact, that I think steeping ourselves in them, for even just a moment, may help us to see the resurrection a little more clearly in our everyday.

I invite you to join me for a seven-week study of resurrection, coming to print in 2022.

This study focuses on the places we could use some resurrection in our lives: death and life, fear and failure, healing and restoration, witness and glory. We’ll jump all over Scripture to discover the many proofs of resurrection and the Resurrected Life given to us right now, today. We’ll learn from the many witnesses to resurrection in the Bible, the many moments people had with the resurrected Christ, and we’ll find out more about the restoration the Resurrection brings to everything it touches.

You can access the free video components of the study on the Heidi Goehmann Writes YouTube channel today to get a sneak peek:

You can use any or all the extras available for the study on the My Redeemer Lives page:

There is one side effect of this study:

You’ll find resurrections everywhere.

Now, who’s in?