There's one question we all have to wrestle with -- do you believe that Jesus rose from the dead? If we don't believe, then all the strands that hold Christianity together collapse and we're left with nothing. The teaching of Christ wouldn't mean anything if we didn't also believe that his claim to rise from the grave is also true.
If so, then all the fears and anxieties and pressures fade in comparison. Our faith in Christ joins us with Christ in his death and resurrection, so that we overcome the world along with Christ -- we share in his glorious victory over sin and death. If we believe that Christ rose from the dead, then we should follow anything and everything he teaches, clinging to every word he says, studying his life from every angle to glean anything and everything. If we believe that Christ rose from the dead, then we have the fullest hope we could ever dream to desire, and there is no burden so great as to turn us from following.
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