Resurrection: when wounds are victory – Thad Norvell

When we face hardship and suffering, we naturally long for it to end. We look for God to step in when we’ve had enough and put a stop to it. But Paul says we “always carry around in our bodies the reality of the brutal death and suffering of Jesus.” This is tragic news unless we understand that we are carrying the very force that reverses the curse of sin and death. Just as the resurrected Jesus appeared to his followers with the marks of his suffering and death still visible, we will, in our own resurrection, bear the marks of our wounds as signs of victory.