Three Steps from Death to Life

God will raise all the dead to life. Not only on the day of resurrection, but now.
Many people are stuck in their selfishness. They do what they can to get their own way through,
and does not listen to the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Love.
Such people are really more dead than alive. But God will raise us to life,
many times every day. It is necessary to wake up.
In the Gospel, Jesus raises the dead, and he does it in three different ways.
Jairus' daughter is "sleeping", and Jesus urges her to wake up.
The widow's son in Nain must arise, and Lazarus, who is already in the grave,
will hear that he must come out.
These three ways of awakening correspond to three different ways of being dead.
You may live unconsciously, not knowing why you live and what you are going.
You don't know whether you are dealing with trifles or important things.
Then Jesus says to you:
Wake! Become aware, present, come to yourself, think about what is at stake!
Perhaps you are lifeless because of inertia and laziness.
You waste your precious time and never get your life right.
Get up! Says Jesus, shake off your laziness and get going!
A third way is to be closed in on oneself, filled with self-absorption and self-pity, wrapped up in selfishness.
Come out! Stop revolving around yourself. Do something for others, for love!
Pay attention and listen to what Jesus wants to tell you, and you will become a truly living person.

We wish you a blessed Easter with this meditation by Wilfrid Stinissen.

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