I’ve been thinking a lot about a video I saw recently of Tim Keller shortly before he passed away from cancer. Basically, he said that because of the resurrection, everything is going to be OK.

Obviously, he didn’t mean that he was instantly going to be healed from cancer and live the rest of his life in luxury and comfort. He meant that even if the cancer took him (which it did) that the resurrection means that death would not have the final word.

I love that. Because of the resurrection not only of humanity but also of creation, we know that the story doesn’t end with pain and suffering. It doesn’t end with joblessness and financial hardships. It doesn’t end with broken families and broken marriages.

It’s not a pie-in-the-sky fantasy that avoids the reality of the real world. It is a promise from Jesus Himself that He is preparing a place for us to live with Him forever that’s more amazing than anything we could ever dream of or conceive in our wildest imaginations.

That’s the hope we cling to when nothing seems to get better or to change. That’s our song that we sing as we walk through death’s darkest valley. That’s the joy that won’t let go of us when we’d rather give up than keep getting up every morning and fighting a seemingly losing battle.

It’s that amazing grace that had led us safely thus far and the same grace that will lead us home one day. Everything really is going to be OK.