What Does it Mean That Love Lives?
When the world keeps moving, but nothing is quite the same.
If Jesus is alive, then Easter isn’t just something that happened. It means something is different about how life works now. Not on the surface – most things will look exactly the same – but underneath, the story you’re living in has changed.
It means you don’t have to treat your life as something separate from God anymore. Not something you dip in and out of when you have time or feel spiritual enough. If love lives, then Jesus is not confined to certain places or moments. He’s not waiting for you to get your life together or show up in the right environment. He is present in the middle of your actual life – the conversations, the work, the tiredness, the ordinary routines you repeat every day.
You might be making a drink, replying to a message, walking somewhere you’ve walked a hundred times before and nothing about it feels significant. And yet, if Jesus is alive, then even that moment is not empty. Not separate. Not unnoticed.
It also means you won’t always recognise what He’s doing straight away. That’s normal. The people closest to Jesus didn’t. They saw Him and still missed it at first because they were expecting something clearer, more obvious. So if you find yourself unsure, or not quite seeing where God is, that’s not failure. It might just mean you’re looking for something different to how He’s actually showing up.
In practice, it means paying attention becomes more important than having answers. Instead of trying to work everything out, you begin to notice what’s already happening. A conversation that feels more significant than it should. A moment of peace that doesn’t quite match your circumstances. A sense that you’re being drawn towards something, even if you can’t explain it. None of these things prove anything on their own, but together they start to point to presence.
It means your ordinary day carries more weight than you thought. Not because you have to make it meaningful, but because it already is. If Jesus is alive, then there isn’t a divide between “spiritual life” and “real life.” The way you respond to people, the way you carry yourself, the way you notice or ignore what’s in front of you – these are all part of how you live within His story.
It also means you’re not stuck in the same patterns forever. Resurrection isn’t about going back to how things were. It’s about something new being possible. So the parts of your life that feel fixed – habits, struggles, ways of thinking – are not as final as they seem. Change doesn’t usually happen quickly or dramatically, but it is possible in a way it wasn’t before.
And maybe most simply, it means you’re not on your own in any of it. Not in the big decisions, not in the small moments, not in the confusion or the clarity. Even when nothing feels particularly different, the reality underneath is that Jesus is present. Not distant, not watching from afar, but involved in ways you might only recognise over time.
So the shift is this: you stop waiting for life to become something else before God is part of it. You start to assume He is already here. And perhaps, slowly, that begins to change how you see things. Not all at once. Not dramatically. But you notice a little more. You pause a little longer. You begin to realise that what looked ordinary might not be as empty as it seemed. Because if love lives, then this – what you’re living right now – is already part of something more.
Josh | A Curious Follower
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