Apr 11 - Luke 24:5

Why do you look for the living

among the dead?

Luke 24:5

What’s living in this world?

People are living. Things are obviously dead.

James tells us (2:17) that faith without words is also dead. And the Psalms tell us that “evil brings death” (Ps 34:21).

In the Proverbs, Solomon warns that, “Those who despise the word bring destruction on themselves” (in case you’re superstitious, that’s appropriately Prov 13:13).

The Apostles want us to know that “the body without the spirit is dead” (Jas 2:26). Why? Because of the stranglehold of sin. Indeed, Paul says, the body is dead because of sin” (Rom 8:10).

Timothy is told that “those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction” (1 Tim 6:9).

Furthermore, Paul wants us all to know that “the [one] who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives” (1 Tim 5:6).

One of my favorite book titles in recent years is Neil Postman’s classic, “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” How fully does that describe our modern culture? How fully does that describe you?

In this season of life and resurrection, what are do you turn to that brings death (or turn away from that brings life)?

In Christ’s Love,

a prisoner

who wants to get off

death row