Why the resurrection changes everything

If death has the final word, our lives are little more than beautiful pages destined for the fire. But if Jesus truly rose from the dead, then nothing done in Him is ever wasted, says Mike Hood

Imagine you are working on something you care about deeply, writing it out on paper by hand. You’re an author, maybe, and it’s the novel you’ve always dreamt of writing. At the end of the day, a man comes in, takes every sheet of paper and throws them onto the fire. 

As you watch the pages smoulder and shrivel up into ashes, he sends you home for the night, and you realise you cannot even remember what you have written. So, you come back the next day and start again. You pour your heart and soul into what you are doing. And at the end of the day, he comes in again, burns it all to ashes and sends you home. There’s nothing you can do to hang on to any of it; not even to the smallest scrap of memory.