Tim Keller tells the following story about the power of Christ's resurrection:
A minister was in Italy, and there he saw the grave of a man who had
died centuries before who was an unbeliever and completely against
Christianity, but a little afraid of it too. So the man had a huge stone slab
put over his grave so he would not have to be raised from the dead in case
there is a resurrection from the dead. He had insignias put all over the slab
saying, "I do not want to be raised from the dead. I don't believe in
it." Evidently, when he was buried, an acorn must have fallen into the
grave. So a hundred years later the acorn had grown up through the grave and
split that slab. It was now a tall towering oak tree. The minister looked at it
and asked, "If an acorn, which has power of biological life in it, can
split a slab of that magnitude, what can the acorn of God's resurrection power
do in a person's life?"
Keller
comments:
The minute you decide to receive Jesus as Saviour and Lord, the power
of the Holy Spirit comes into your life. It's the power of the resurrection—the
same thing that raised Jesus from the dead …. Think of the things you see as
immovable slabs in your life—your bitterness, your insecurity, your fears, your
self-doubts. Those things can be split and rolled off. The more you know him,
the more you grow into the power of the resurrection.
Nancy Guthrie, editor, Jesus, Keep Me Near the
Cross (Crossway, 2009), p. 136
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