Will you be resurrected one day?

      I find it both surprising and disturbing that many of the folk who profess Jesus Christ as Saviour nevertheless are shaky in their faith. If you ask a congregation of God's people whether they believe in the resurrection you can expect to hear a resounding 'Yes!', yet if you then ask them about whether or not they believe that they will be resurrected one day the result is quite different. A few will quickly respond with a very positive 'Yes', but many will be far from certain. 

      Surely, to harbour no real hope of resurrection from the dead is to deny one of the most basic tenets of the Christian faith. Paul writes to the Corinthians: Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain (1 Corinthians 15: verses 12-14 NAS).

      To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny the Christian faith altogether, and to accept Christ's resurrection and yet deny the hope of the resurrection of all believers is to limit the power of God to the raising of Christ alone, and in this to make God as small as the individual human mind can accept rather than acknowledging Him to be omnipotent.

      Is it the fault of the church in general that causes people to have such weak faith, such weakness being born out of  lack of knowledge? Certainly, in my experience, the numbers of those attending Bible Study meetings, when taken as a percentage of the congregations to which they belong, is abysmal. There are many who believe that their commitment to the Christian faith and to Jesus Christ is fulfilled by an hours attendance at the Sunday service, leaving the rest of the week to themselves.

      When it comes to Prayer Meetings, then the attendance percentage is even worse, with only a small percentage of churches even having a regular Prayer Meeting. Yet prayer is acknowledged as the power house of the faith. It is through prayer that we can speak to God, yet even more important to our walk of faith, it's through prayer that we can hear God speak to us and let us know what His will for us is. To neglect either the study of Scripture or prayer is to neglect our faith altogether, and it is this neglect, I believe, that causes the problems of belief such as whether or not we will one day be resurrected to glory.