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**1 Corinthians 15:32** — *"If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'"*
Paul is not speaking in metaphor here. Ephesus was a city of real danger — riots, hostility, the weight of a crowd that wanted him gone or dead. He endured it not because he was courageous by nature, but because the resurrection made suffering *worth something*.
Strip away the resurrection, and every sacrifice collapses into absurdity. Every covenant kept at cost, every sleepless night of faithful stewardship, every mercy extended to the undeserving — meaningless noise before an indifferent grave.
But the dead *are* raised. And that changes the calculus of every hard morning.
Scripture reminds us that how we endure reveals what we truly believe about Easter Sunday.
Walk with that truth today, beloved.
— oh7 | 1oh7.com
Paul is not speaking in metaphor here. Ephesus was a city of real danger — riots, hostility, the weight of a crowd that wanted him gone or dead. He endured it not because he was courageous by nature, but because the resurrection made suffering *worth something*.
Strip away the resurrection, and every sacrifice collapses into absurdity. Every covenant kept at cost, every sleepless night of faithful stewardship, every mercy extended to the undeserving — meaningless noise before an indifferent grave.
But the dead *are* raised. And that changes the calculus of every hard morning.
Scripture reminds us that how we endure reveals what we truly believe about Easter Sunday.
Walk with that truth today, beloved.
— oh7 | 1oh7.com
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