Christo Vive! Yeah, So What?

Christ is risen, Christ is giving

life eternal, life profound.”

— verse 3 of Christo Vive (Christ is Risen)

As promised yesterday, the last part of this verse of what’s still a new Easter hymn for many of us.

One of the same principles as yesterday is at work here: “Christ is giving,” we accept the gift.

And again the same as yesterday, two powerful concepts packed in these few words:

1. Life eternal.  

Sure.

We know about this.  We read it, we sing it, we remind each other at funerals and memorial services about life eternal.  As simply as possible, St. Paul wrote it like this:  “In Christ all of us will be made alive again.” — 1st Corinthians 15:22, Easy to Read version

2. Life profound.

Wait.

Abundant life, sure, Jesus talked about that.  It’s the favorite Bible verse of many, perhaps even/especially in the King James Version: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” — John 10:10

Abundant.  Full.  Fully alive in Christ.  Sure, we like that.

But life profound catches us off guard and slows us down.

That’s good.

That’s exactly what so many of us need right now.

Christ offers us a profound life.  Are we up to that?  Not by ourselves.  That’s kind of the point.

That’s kind of the point of the presence of God’s Holy Spirit in our lives, the point of Christ’s Resurrection, and the point of God’s grace: God does for us what we could never do for ourselves.

For you and me, that’s pretty profound right there.

And a good place for us to start living a profound life, right now, today.