Will You Live Happily Ever After?

Happily ever after.
 
That’s a phrase that feels completely unrealistic. It belongs in fairy tales and Disney movies, but not in the real world. Life is too hard, we’ve become too cynical, and we’ve seen far too many people walk through life without anything close to a “happily ever after.”
 
If you’ve seen the Y2K classic Shrek, you know it pokes fun at every fairy tale trope. It famously ends with the line “ugly ever after.” And honestly, “ugly ever after” often feels more believable than “happily ever after.”
 
Yet Christianity makes an audacious claim: every believer will live happily ever after. Not as a ghost haunting their family members. Not as an angel floating on a cloud with a harp. But as a glorified, resurrected human being ruling alongside Christ.
 
In fact, for the Christian, you could say our whole life on earth is just the prologue to the real story.
 
Tomorrow we’re ending our series in the Apostles’ Creed by looking at one of the most hope-filled beliefs in Christianity: the resurrection of the dead. And we’ll see that in Christ, “happily ever after” isn’t sentimental. It’s our future.
 
And I can’t wait to tell you more!