How Jesus’ Resurrection Matters on a Typical Tuesday

Holy Week is behind us. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Silent Saturday, Resurrection Sunday, and now we begin a regular week. What now? Do we leave Easter behind until next April? Is Jesus’ resurrection significant in the other 51 weeks of the year?

His resurrection is the crux of our faith. Without Jesus’ sacrifice, resurrection, and ascension, our Christianity is only as valuable as another belief system. Without Jesus overcoming the grave, we’d strive to model our lives around a good man. The burden of our sins, mistakes, and regrets would hang heavily on us.  

Because of the resurrection, we have continual fellowship with God. There are no hoops to jump through each time we communicate with Him. There’s no cowering and hiding our faces; Jesus took all sorrow and shame with Him on the cross. He made our way clear to the triune God. Because of Jesus, we’re free to worship and commune with our Father every hour of the day.  

How might we live in euphoric awareness of The Resurrection for the other 364 days? We remember what He did and allow His sacrifice to season the intimate moments alone in our pain and fear. I don’t want to begin a normal Tuesday and forget how this historic event changed my life each day.

I recently read portions of my old journals from the 1980s. I was a single mom of two: a precocious five-year-old boy and a severely intellectually disabled two-year-old daughter. I had a job in one town as a preschool teacher and a position as kindergarten and preschool director in another town, 30 minutes away. Here’s what I wrote:

“Hope is the answer! I can walk through my hard places if I have hope. Where can I find hope? Some brilliant people understand how a human heart functions, and others have explored the vast universe created by God, but are unknown to humans. Skilled politicians and leaders have smart minds and strive to improve our country. But that’s not where I find hope. My hope is in the Lord because of His unfailing love.   

Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.

Psalm 36:5 NLT

Continuing in journal…If my hope is in Him, His eye is on me, and He delights in me. I love Him—He has called me into His purpose. Everything I encounter works for my good and for His glory.

We hope in God because He raised Jesus from the dead, and He has promised to resurrect our mortal bodies. When we see Jesus, we will be like Him. We hope in God’s word. Abraham hoped against all hope and received the promise from the Father. Jeremiah prayed to the Lord and acknowledged, ‘Nothing is too hard for Thee’.

When we lack hope, we should pray for each other and encourage with God’s words.“

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13 NIV

My words, penned so many years ago, encourage me today. I walked through one of the most difficult times of my life, clutching genuine hope, not just empty words. He will never leave his kids; He will never forsake us, even in the darkest moments of our lives. Our hope in Him stands the test of time and difficulty. We must never forget the actual resurrection event that occurred on a day in history. That event gives us everything we need to walk through whatever comes our way.

I confess, on ordinary Tuesdays, I sometimes forget the supernatural life He died to give us. The same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives inside me—how could I forget? My life on earth is a vapor, and I’ll live forever with Him. Lord, please help me remember this every moment, especially in the hardest places.

You were once at odds with God, wicked in your ways and evil in your minds; but now He has reconciled you in His body–—in His flesh through His death—so that He can present you to God holy, blameless and free of imperfection as long as you stay planted in the faith. So don’t venture away from what you have heard and taken to heart: the living hope of the good news that has resounded to all creation under heaven and has captured me, Paul, as its servant.

Colossians 1:21-23 The Voice

Selah.