“If ye then be risen” (Col. iii. 1).
God is waiting this morning to mark the opening hours for every ready and
willing heart with a touch of life and power that will lift our lives to
higher pleasures and offer to our vision grander horizons of hope and holy
service.
We shall not need to seek far to discover our risen Lord. He was in
advance even of the earliest seeker that Easter morning, and He will be
waiting for us before the break of day with His glad “All Hail,” if we
have only eyes to see and hearts to welcome and obey Him.
What is His message to us this spring time? “If ye then be risen with
Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the
right hand of God. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God.”
It is not risen with Christ, but _resurrected_. It is not rising a little
higher in the old life, but it is rising from the dead. The resurrection
will mean no more than the death has meant. Only so far as we are really
dead shall we live with Him.