Easter comes early this year, but it’s never too soon for a resurrection.

Great things come out of resurrections. Probably the most important being the acknowledgement of God’s power. No one does resurrections but God. You don’t grimace real hard and resurrect yourself. Jesus didn’t resurrect Himself; God did. God proved He was God and that Jesus was His only begotten Son at the resurrection.

It’s the same way God proves Himself in our lives — when we become helpless and God brings us back.

“Welcome Back” is a resurrection song. It says we were lost but now we have been found; we were blind but now we see; we were dead in our sins, but now we are alive in Christ, and Christ has a better plan than sinning. He has a plan to bring good out of our lives in such a way that we, and everyone who knows us will say: “God must have done that.” Or even: “God is doing that.”

When something is dead and gone, only a resurrection will bring it back. Dead things have no power.  “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (John 12:24). That’s because the power of God takes over in death.

Look out your window and you can see it — buds forming on dead branches; crocuses pushing up through the snow; a butterfly on the wing; a bird’s song piercing the darkness. It happens every year.

It happens every day — every day you or I meet up with the end of ourselves and the beginning of God. Every day we fall, fade out, lose or give up there’s something there. Resurrection power. Someone to pick us up, and it will be something that makes someone else say: “How did he do that?” “Where did that come from?” “She’s back!” “He’s alive!” “He’s sober and in his right mind.” “She got her life back.” “He got his ministry back.”

“God must have done that.” “God must be doing that.”

Easter is coming early this year, and it’s a good thing, because we all need it badly. We always need it.