Remember YOLO?

Do you remember YOLO? It stands for “You Only Live Once.” The idea was simple: you only get one life, so live it up. Don’t miss anything. Do whatever you want, it’s your one shot.

Eventually YOLO gave way to FOMO, “Fear Of Missing Out.” Because if this life is all there is, then every missed opportunity feels final.

I’ve always thought YOLO was a little ironic. If you only live once… shouldn’t you be more careful? But I digress.

But here’s the deeper issue: YOLO assumes this material world is all there is. Once you’re gone, it’s over. You’re just food for worms. So you better experience everything you can while you can.

I get why people think that. Life is short, and somehow as you get older it feels like it keeps speeding up (Wasn’t it just Christmas a couple of days ago?).

But the resurrection has something to say about YOLO.

Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection tell us there is more to life than these 80 or so years. You see, if we really believe that he rose from the dead, we can’t keep living like this life is all we have.

Everything changes. It has to!

I’d love to invite you to join us for Easter tomorrow. We’re going to look at three destructive lies we believe, and how the hope of the resurrection completely shatters them. I pray you’ll join us at 10 AM tomorrow morning.