Through him

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. (John 3:17)

Salvation through Christ is a participation game, not something we watch as innocent bystanders.

We pass through him, which means living through the experience of dying and rising, losing and discovering what we lost was a pale shadow of the life we receive, if we are willing truly to let go of what was.

Christ’s way must become ours, a way of trusting the unconquerable Love who awakens life in us exactly at the point we thought we had lost it, when what we imagined was most real and alive in us is stripped away.

Dead to what we thought we were and could yet be, we wait, even as he laid lifeless in the tomb, waiting for the great awakening to the truth that there is more.

And that more is life, deeper connection, greater awareness, more intimate communion, heart-to-heart, with the One who is Life and Love.

Every one of life’s defeats and losses is a dress rehearsal for the death we ultimately all die. But if we give ourselves to the process of dying and rising along life’s way, we begin to understand that ... just maybe ... there is nothing to fear at all.

There is life on the other side of every cross.

David L. Miller