Those of our people who have died will live again! Their bodies will come back to life. All those sleeping in their graves will wake up and sing for joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth, so the Lord will revive those who have long been dead. (Isaiah 26:19)
Just as surely as a mighty army of unprecedented strength and impact is emerging globally, another set of individuals, also chosen and predestined from the beginning of time and equipped with the potential to accomplish the revolutionary, is quietly resurging. These individuals possess multifaceted characteristics and skills and come from diverse backgrounds. Like the emergents, these resurgents were once dead, ignorant of God as their Father and alienated from His glorious promises and their inheritance as His children. They were excluded from the commonwealth citizenship rights and privileges that God had reserved for them1. They used to grope about in the darkness of their ignorance and spiritual blindness,2 thinking they had a life of meaning but clueless to the fact that they were dead men walking.3 They were separated from God and from every genuine hope for living as He intended for them!4
These Resurgents are responding to a different type of call – the invitation to lay aside all prior ignorance and alienation from the one true God5 and to know Him personally and intimately through Jesus Christ – just as He purposed from the world’s inception.6 Now, these formerly dead people are gloriously alive and thriving, finding enduring meaning and purpose in God and His predetermined purpose for them! Even as I write this, many across the globe are turning away from their obliviousness of God and His grand plan and are willfully engaging in exciting adventures with both! Others are not yet, but are constantly being offered opportunities to do so through God’s chosen emissaries (the Emergents) and circumstances leveraged to attract their attention. The world’s Chief Resurgence Officer, God’s Holy Spirit, is the primary personality behind this glorious global phenomenon. He’s a Master at reviving dead things and people7, and can give a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree turnaround of the lowest, most hopeless pits of life into a mighty, conquering troop!8
If you are not actively living for God, or have not yet received the forgiveness of sins and an experience of a personal relationship with Him through Jesus Christ, make the decision now! This is your opportunity to believe in Him, receive Him, and experience the glorious life He’s prepared for you! Today is your day9 to join those awakening to a new life of meaning and impact! 10 Take your place in the great RESURGENCE – your future and your destiny will thank you!
*For questions on how to get to know God personally through Jesus Christ, experience Him daily, or for other inquiries, please email: graced@thewordofhisgrace.com
Bibliography
- Ephesians 2:1-3; 11-13; 19; 4:18 ↩︎
- Isaiah 59:9-11; Job 12:24-25; Job 5:14 (read vs 8-15 for full context); Deuteronomy 28:29 (read vs 1-29 for full context); 2 Cor 4:3-4; 2 Corinthinas 3:13-15; John 12:37-40; Acts 26:12-18 ↩︎
- Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13; Romans 5:12; 17-19; 8:5-8 ↩︎
- Ephesians 2:12 ↩︎
- Acts 17:22-31; Galatians 4:8-9; 1 Peter 1:14; 3:3-4; Acts 14:15-17; Acts 26:17-18; Titus 2:11-12; Acts 3:19 ↩︎
- John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 John 5:7-12; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; John 3:36; 1 Corinthians 3:11; Revelation 13:8 ↩︎
- John 11:43-44; 25-26; Luke 7:15; John 5:21; 2 Corinthians 1:9b; John 5:25 ↩︎
- Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104:30; Isaiah 32:15 ↩︎
- Isaiah 49:8-9; 2 Corinthians 6:2; Psalm 102:13 ↩︎
- Ephesians 5:14; Romans 13:11-12; Isiah 26:19 ↩︎