Some years ago Malmon Ihara found a lotus seed imbedded in a neolithic canoe near his home in Kemigawa, Japan.  He showed it to a botanist friend who said the seed appeared to be about 2,000 years old.  They planted it, and it sprouted and grew and bore a perfect lotus blossom.  This is an amazing thing - life within a seed preserved to blossom after 2,000 years. 

Is it unreasonable to believe that the God of our universe has built immortality into the scheme of things?

However, the resurrection means more than immortality - it means eternal life if we trust Jesus.  Immortality has to do only with time, endless existence, while eternal life has to do with quality of life you receive when you accept Jesus and the truth he proclaimed.  Eternal life is immortality characterized by abiding fellowship with God! 

And we celebrate that promise tomorrow - the Sunday of Sundays.

Prayer:  "Loving God, help me to be all you would have me to be, in Jesus' name.  Amen."