The Resurrection is commonly understood as a one-time miracle, an anomaly that proved Jesus was God. Jesus was actually revealing what is happening everywhere and all the time in God. Jesus’ resurrection is a statement about how reality works: always moving toward transformation.
Death is not just physical dying but going to the full depth of things. If we choose to walk through the depths—even the depths of our own sin and mistakes—we will come out the other side, knowing we will be taken there by a Source larger than our self. This is what it means to be saved; not that we are any better than anyone, but that we’ve allowed and accepted the pure gift and mystery of transformation. The most miraculous thing of all is that God uses the very thing that would normally destroy us—the tragic, the sorrowful, the painful, the unjust—to transform and enlighten us.
We are indestructible and there are no absolute dead ends. This is what we mean when we say we are “saved by the death and resurrection of Jesus.” It is a transformation to a much higher level of love and consciousness. We would have been plucked from the flames of any would-be death to the soul, and we would become the very kind of human being God intended for eternal life.
Revelation 21:4-5 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!”
