Faith is active and deliberate. Faith is also worship. Thomas declares this when he saw the risen Lord. He did not merely acknowledge the fact of Jesus’ resurrection but the theology it signified, but more than that, it was doxological.
The risen Lord has for His people unfathomable riches. Despite their failures and unworthiness, Jesus gave His disciples this gift: the noble assignment to proclaim the gospel of divine forgiveness of sins
Jesus rose victoriously from the dead, having inaugurated the new covenant. This risen and victorious Savior then gave gifts to men, even “the unfathomable riches of Christ.” Jesus speaks of these magnificent gifts in His post-resurrection appearances.
The person who is not satisfied with Christ will inevitably seek satisfaction somewhere else, but nothing else will satisfy. Nothing on earth was meant to satisfy except Christ.
Only a renewed mind can live a life in the Lord; but an untransformed life proves the mind is not yet renewed. Let our minds be continually filled with the living spring of truth from our Lord.
The empty tomb is said to be the greatest evidence of Jesus’ resurrection. The Jews could have easily disproven the resurrection by producing His body, but they could not.
If Jesus be our Passover, we must clean out the old leaven of sin and live holy lives. All who refuse to trust and obey Christ will one day bitterly grieve the shocking realization that they spurned and wanted dead the very God who stands as Judge over them.
We are exhorted to continuously strain forward to the fullness of salvation which Christ has secured for us. As a runner leans into the finish line, so Christians reach toward Christ by faith in Him.
