God saved me over 13 years ago. He watched over me and protected me all my life. Even sometimes when I didn’t want to be saved, very sure in some instances where I wanted to die.
I think of it metaphorically through many Bible narratives. God resurrected Jesus so we could be resurrected. The resurrection is the central base of Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20, which is known as “The Gospels.”
Jesus’s tomb is found empty, and this event is celebrated as a triumph over death. You could say that God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, robs the grave of its hold on Jesus, turning it into a place of finality into a symbol of victory.
The grave is meant to claim bodies permanently, is left empty handed.
1 Corinthians 15:55 Paul taunts “Death, where is your sting? Sheol, where is your victory.”
Death is swallowed up in victory. God’s power overrides the natural order, reclaiming life from the clutches of the tomb. The resurrection isn’t theft in a literal sense since God is the creator and holds dominion over life and death. But, metaphorically it’s the divine reversal.
I love Crowders gritty song “Grave Robber.” It’s an upbeat take on the resurrection, that was inspired by the story of Lazarus in John 11-1-44, where Jesus calls Lazarus’s dead Body out of his tomb.
He sings it as a personal anthem, where Jesus as the “grave robber, snatches him from spiritual death, washes him clean, and brings him back to life.
I think sometimes God steals us as the grave robber. He picks us up when we have hit rock bottom. Jesus is the rock and rolls our graves away in a divine rescue to save us from the grave.
Jesus conquers death, not just literally like with Lazarus, but spiritually – pulling people out of sin and despair.
No matter how bleak things get, it’s good to know Jesus can overturn it, because He beat death. He’s got everything else covered.
From Pity to Praise 