Weakness #1: Taking Jesus for granted

"For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
- 1 Corinthians 15:16-19

What if God wasn't real? What would it be like if Jesus never rose from the dead? What if everything that atheists have been saying is true?

I think sometimes it's easier to be thankful for something if we imagine life without it. What would life be like without Jesus...


Entertainment

Still stuck in addictive mind-sucking games and spending every minute trying to stay entertained. I remember spending hours upon hours playing this game as I tried to escape from doing anything worthwhile. Thankfully God intervened in a way that my account didn't work anymore, and I threw off this baggage.




Worry

Stressed out of my mind as I last-minute cram for test after test. Even now I face the difficulties of school and procrastination. But it is during these times that I remember the calming peace that only Jesus provides. I don't know what I would have done without it.




Without Purpose


Goal in life: make money, buy a nice suburban house, marry a pretty wife, have one or two kids, retire early, die old. No hope after death. Living life while it lasts.

I wonder how they do it.









Hopeless

Still stuck in sin. No ressurection, no new life, no hope. Constantly striving to be a better person, and constantly failing. Looking for a salvation that doesn't exist. Waiting for the third day... fourth... fifth...

And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? I die every day—I mean that, brothers—just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord. If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,
"Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die."
- 1 Corinthians 15:30-32

Hope

"But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive."
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-21