Our Hope of Resurrection   

You may have heard this before. Back in 1982, as vice-president, George Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried out by Brezhnev's widow. She stood motionless by the coffin until seconds before it was closed. Then, just as the soldiers touched the lid, Brezhnev's wife performed an act of great courage and hope, a gesture that must surely rank as one of the most profound acts of civil disobedience ever committed: she reached down and made the sign of the cross on her husband's chest.
There in the citadel of secular, atheistic power, the wife of the man who had run it all hoped that her husband was wrong. She hoped that there was another life, and that that life was best represented by Jesus who died on the cross, and that the same Jesus might yet have mercy on her husband.
That hope of our resurrection is only made possible by the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! We who are Christians, however, do not act with only a blind hope that those who disbelieved were wrong. We are Christians because we absolutely believe that the man who died on the cross 2000 years ago was/is the Son of God. And we also believe, indeed we base our very lives upon the belief, that not only was that man the Son of God, but He was without a doubt raised from the dead. Therein we place our hope.

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