Gabe Fluhrer

The gospel is being preached, Philippians, while I'm in prison.

Praise the Lord.

He says, he never says, oh God, get me out of prison.

He just says, no, I'll endure it all for the sake of the elect and for Christ's sake, because that's all that matters to me.

And I am following him in the pathway of resurrection life, even as I experience cross bearing death.

So what does the resurrection mean for us in our daily lives?

It means that in every one of our lives,

Again, as one author put it, we will be experiencing many crucifixions and many resurrections every day.

And the battle for our souls and our minds by grace and by grace alone will be won in those many battles.

It's not so much the one event that will undo us, but the culmination of daily events that can wear us down.

And therefore, the gospel of resurrection, the only true gospel, speaks to us right where we are and says, all of the things that are wrong, that we don't like in our lives or on a bigger scale, the global evil we see, all of that comes to an end one day.

And in the meantime, in the meantime, it's all normal for us.

This is what you signed up for, Jesus says.

Count the cost, he reminds us.

Because in the end, a student is never above his teacher.

And as we walk with him in suffering, he says, don't lose heart.

Because what I'm going to give you is so much better and how I will sustain you is so much better.

John 7, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

And so he says, as you follow me in daily death, recognize that daily resurrection is coming your way too.

Daily living water, daily sustenance for life in a fallen world.