He Is Risen

One of my favorite parts in Isaiah has a stranger bemoaning that he is not part of the family, and a eunuch crying that he is a "dry tree". Two individuals who have reached a point where they have no hope, and there is no solution to their problem. It is unfixable. Strangers don't fit in. Eunuchs never have children. There is simply nothing that can be done.

I think every child has come to their parents with tears in their eyes, asking them to fix something that simply cannot be fixed. I think each of us, as adults, has looked at a situation and wished that we could fix it, but some things cannot be fixed.

That is why the Lord's response to the cry of the stranger and the eunuch is so powerful, "unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off." (Isaiah 56:5) What a promise! Through Christ, strangers become family, eunuchs become a fruitful tree. Things that seemed impossible to cure are no longer an issue.

Today is the day we celebrate that indescribable moment when Christ fixed the unfixable. In the moment his disciples walked into an empty tomb, we had proof that He was who He said He was. He is the Son of God. He keeps His promises. He is the great conqueror. He will defeat the undefeatable monsters that stalk us.

Loneliness, lack of family, depression, cancer--they all have a cure. It is Christ. He fixes the unfixable. Through Him we will live again; and we will live in perfection, made whole in every way. He will "put all enemies under his feet." and "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (1 Corinthians 15:25-26)

Christ is risen.