The God Who Gives Life to the Dead

By Ps Dev Menon

What does it mean to you that we serve a God who raises the dead? 

I guess for most, it means that death is not the end. We have this certain hope that even though we die – we come to the end of our mortal lives – God promises that just as He raised Christ from the tomb, so will He raise us from our graves on that final day. This is a wonderful comfort to hold on to during any critical illness or at any funeral. 

Yet as we study the book of Romans, we realise more and more that death is really about sin. The reason death of any kind exists, is because of sin. All die because all sin. 

So then, if we serve a God who raises the dead, it means we serve a God who gives to sinners, a new kind of life. A life that transcends sin, is beyond sin, overcomes sin in a such definitive way, much like resurrection overcomes death. An impossible kind of life. 

I think the impossibility of this really needs to impact us. That what God does in us through His Spirit is an impossible thing, just like resurrection is an impossible thing. 

Because strangely enough, once we believe that God can do the impossible… can take any sinner – no matter how bad, how messed up, how lost or how broken. Can take any sinner, no matter how ‘dead’, and give them a new and impossible life… once we trust God to that extent and in that way – won’t that cultivate in us this amazing confidence and intense hope? And not just for ourselves but for everyone around us? 

Friend, if today you feel that your life is over… everything has gone wrong, you’ve messed it all up and others have written you off as hopeless – beyond any possibility of change, life just seem to keep getting worse and worse… please don’t despair! 

The God that we serve gives life to the dead. That’s His speciality. 

If you are new, or you haven’t been back in church for a long time, and you want to get to know this God better, please contact myself or any of the staff (details are on page 2).