Beliefs are a powerful tool in our hearts and minds. When what we believe is working to our advantage, we love our beliefs, but when those beliefs do not work to our advantage how quickly we dump them as not believable. Think of it in the realm of healing, we can say we believe in healing, but if we or someone we love doesn’t get healed we question whether or not God heals today. We will never say it out loud, but we question it in our hearts and minds.

Beliefs are established with evidence externally. Little to no external evidence erodes our belief about whatever subject we are believing. Is it any wonder the minute something we are believing for doesn’t happen the way we think it should, we question our belief about it.

Today is traditionally, on the church calendar, the day after Jesus rose from the dead. The Pharisees, the ones who believe in the resurrection from the dead, are the very ones who created a narrative to deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 27:62-64 says, “The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.”

The very people who believe in resurrection created a narrative that said “Jesus can’t be raised from the dead.” It never ceases to amaze me how we shift the narrative in order to benefit us in some way or the other. Church, this is religion at its best. Religion alters the truth to fit their narrative, rather than stepping into the narrative of God, even if it means they must pivot.

Matthew 28:12-13 continues after the verifiable resurrection from the dead saying, “And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.”

This is an example of paying people off to create a narrative for the masses to believe, but truth has a way of coming out, for Jesus is risen from the dead and no other narrative can change that reality. Truth is coming from heaven to earth in the form of a drill that is piercing our faulty narratives with truth that will set us free. Receive it or reject it, the truth will never cease to be the truth about Jesus or any other truth Jesus has spoken. He is risen!!!