What's the worst day of vacation? We'd all agree it's the last one. It's the day we have to get ready to go back to our regular lives, our routines, and our jobs. But the beauty of our spiritual journey is that this trip is one-way. Last week, we started the story with Lazarus' resurrection, and today we end it with Jesus'. But there is a distinction. Lazarus had to have his grave clothes removed for him, whereas Jesus simply passed through his. That's because Jesus was in a glorified state whereas Lazarus had simply returned back to his same body. Here is an aspect of the resurrection that is often lost at times. We are not just looking forward to a “2nd life” or an extension of this current one. No... we are looking forward to new life, which includes an entirely new existence. An existence that not only isn’t bound to the material, but that is not subject to the sickness, disease and defeat we suffer now.
