Can The Dead Live Again?

Can the dead live again? If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle, and I would eagerly await the release of death. [Job 14.14]

For all the things said in Job's story (his and his friend's), there is no lack for profundity in some of the things said. This verse is one of those.

I will make no attempt here to expound on what Job was saying or even meaning in this verse except to point out that his question, "Can the dead live again?" should be a question we ask regularly today. 

Job's conclusion, if the dead can indeed live again, is where we are given a profound sense of eternity. Job makes a right assessment that 'rising from the dead' gives hope to endure life's struggles in anticipation of eternity after death.

Unfortunately for Job, it seems he did not have that hope.

For all that Job's story stirs up in the religious community, this one question should make Jesus Christ critical to every conversation, Can the dead live again? The answer is "yes." So, there is hope. There is patience. There is a future.

Father, no matter what is going on in my life right now, the fact that the dead can live again is enough for me to persist. So be it.