Journey to the Never-Dried-Up Well #10

I have always preferred Resurrection to Easter. Besides the fact that Easter have been the subject of speculation {is it not the name of some goddess? Check it up here: easter origins }, Resurrection is simply easier for us.

Resurrection is the promise made possible by the prototype. Because Christ rose from the dead, death is no longer final for us. We can expect to live on. Heaven is real. Eternity continues when your watch dies on you, and your lungs and heart are placed to rest.

But Resurrection comes only after death. So we must die first.

Honestly, no one talks this crazy way but us CHRISTians. See the word 'Christian'? It ends with -ian. It is an acronym for

I

Am

Nothing.

That is right. Remove the CHRIST and all you get is nothing. Zero.

A Christian without Christ is pure oxymoron. Not possible, does not exist.

Back to the dying.

We can, and must die.

We can die because Life has come and we know this Life cannot be snuffed out. So whatever we need to die to, we can for we are now unafraid.

We must die because Life does not co-exist with death. So whatever within and around us that drains life must be dealt a decisive blow.

Struggling with forgiveness?

Agonizing over an unanswered longing?

Feeling covered in shame and pain?

Die to all of that.

Must, and can-be-done.

After half a century on earth and enough battles to write a mini-drama, I know it is hard stuff, this dying. We feel the desperate sense of loss more than we can whiff the promise of triumph. The good we need just does not show up quick enough and our soul is frightened that dying will mean even more suffering.

Honestly, it feels plain impossible.

Jesus beckons you to

come sit with him.

He may say very little and speak a very specific and loving word. His presence will do this - the turmoil within begins to stir less. Your racing heart finds a new, slower rhythm. The prospect of death is not as overwhelming and frightening as it was before.

Jesus is he who knows all about dying, and can say,

"I am the Resurrection and the Life" ~ John 11v25

Aditya Ghosh, Unsplash

Sitting with Life overcomes death.

And just perhaps, that thing you want so much, fought so hard for, cried so many nights over... you suddenly realise that it is not what you are really thirsting for... at all. 

What you really need is right here, by the Well, with the One. 

Complete this sentence then, "What I really need right now is..."

We are now defined and empowered by Christ and cannot find what we really need to live apart from Him. No one and nothing compares with Christ.

He was willing to die for us, to carry the guilt and penalty of our sin.

He is working within us so that we can face ourselves and the assault of death.

He is waiting for us to come sit with Him and let Life enter our beings so that death will no longer sting.

This is the last segment of our Lent series that we started on 18 Feb 2026.  Do check out the previous posts for the whole journey ...