04/05/2026
🙏🏻 pause today …
Today is Easter…
and something in me
doesn’t want to rush past that
Because we say it so quickly
He is risen
and move on
But do you understand
what that means?
That means
the body
that hung on a cross
the lungs
that stopped breathing
the heart
that was pierced
started again
Not symbolically
Literally
He was dead
and then—
He wasn’t
And I can’t stop thinking
about the stillness of that tomb
How dark it must have been
How final it must have felt
How death had never
lost before
Every other body
that entered a grave
stayed
Every other story
that ended in death
ended
Until Him
Until Jesus
Because death
met something it had never met before
A Savior
who didn’t just die
but had the authority
to take His life back
And I wonder
what it sounded like
when breath filled His lungs again
When silence broke
When the grave
realized
it couldn’t keep Him
Because the stone
wasn’t rolled away
so He could get out
It was rolled away
so we could see
See that death
does not have the final word
See that sin
does not have the final word
See that your story
does not end
in the grave
Because if Jesus
walked out
then nothing
is too far gone
Not your past
Not your mistakes
Not the things you’ve buried
and tried to move on from
Not even the parts of you
that feel completely dead
Because this is what Easter means
It means death
is defeated
It means hope
is not fragile
It means darkness
doesn’t win
It means God
is not finished
And if He can step into a grave
and walk out alive
then He can step into your life
and do the same
So today—
don’t just say
He is risen
Feel it
Let it shake you
Let it confront you
Let it change you
Because Jesus
is not in the grave
He is alive
And that
changes everything 🤍
