Easter… and What We May Not Be Seeing
Are we seeing the full depth of the word Easter? A reflection on resurrection, life and what needs to live in us, today.
Airton Humber · 05/04/26 · 2 min de leitura
Today is Easter.
Messages are sent.
Verses are shared.
Beautiful words circulate.
Among them, one appears often:
“I am the resurrection and the life.”(John 11:25)
It is a well-known phrase. Comforting.
But perhaps it is being understood as something smaller than it really is.
Jesus did not speak only of a future event.
He did not say: “I will bring the resurrection”.
He did not say: “I will give life one day”.
He said:
“I am the resurrection and the life.”
This takes the resurrection out of the future and brings it into the present.
Death still exists.
The losses continue.
The pain continues.
The body is still subject to its end.
Scripture itself says that death is still an enemy.
So Jesus is not denying reality. He is revealing something deeper:
there is a life that is not interrupted by it
This is the point that almost always goes unnoticed.
Jesus says:
“even though he dies, he will live”
He does not promise to avoid death.
He reveals a life that passes through death.
And this changes Easter.
If the resurrection is only something that happened to Him, or something that will happen later, it remains distant.
But if it is a life that begins now, everything changes.
Scripture says we were dead in our sins.
Not physically dead.
But disconnected from life.
Perhaps this is what the resurrection reveals:
not only that He conquered death
but that what is dead in us can live
Because everything that can be lived, decided and revealed happens here.
Today.
After physical death, there is no more walking as we know it.
So to wait for eternal life only for later is to reduce something that can already be lived.
Easter stops being only a remembrance and becomes a revelation.
And the question stops being:
“Do you believe in the resurrection?”
And becomes:
“Can you see what in you needs to live, today?”
Perhaps Easter is not pointing only to an empty tomb.
But to something that is still empty in us.
it is not only about Him having risen
it is about what this reveals in us
