Salvation
Sometimes the greatest miracle is just waking up to a new day. If you have had a serious illness or an operation, or survived an accident, you will know the feeling. You see the world with new eyes: everything is still here and you are in it, and it’s wonderful.
While the feeling lasts, the simplest activity is a treat. Stepping outside the door is an adventure. You feel you could do anything.
The miracle of salvation is like that. Human beings have made mistakes and done terrible evil. On Good Friday, we even tried to kill God in the person of Jesus Christ. But Jesus and God conspired to turn a disaster into a triumph.
On Easter morning, we find ourselves looking at an empty tomb. A neatly folded shroud. Jesus was dead, but he is gone. His followers are horrified. What has happened?
Just this: God has saved us from our own evil. God says to us, I love you and the world I made for you. My love for you is stronger than everything – much stronger than the death you tried to put me through. So I am giving you another chance. The evil you did is undone. Your sins are forgiven.
Salvation changes all our lives. On Easter morning, all the evil we have done and all the evil we have suffered, are washed away in God’s overwhelming love. God gives us hope and joy. We are new people. Everything is possible.
God says, Behold, I make everything new.
Teresa Morgan – poet, writer & priest Professor of New Testament at Yale University
5 April 2026
