The Power of the Resurrection

I want to know Christ--yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:10,11) 

Thoughts: I have seen films of the surface of great tectonic plates moving in certain sections of California in an earthquake.  When they move up- it pulls everything up with it.  The more powerful a rocket engine, the more it can pull up with it.  When Jesus rose from the dead it was a great plate-moving and powerful event.  His resurrection up from the dead assures those of us who are connected to Him by faith to be pulled up from the dead as well.
    The power of the resurrection is in part that we are assured of our own being raised. But more than that, it also assures us that we can be lifted up in this life.  If you know you cannot be defeated by any sadness, sorrow, death, or mourning in this life- it lifts up your spirits.  In the end we know who will win- and such knowledge lifts up our hearts with hope and even joy.  Joy, as has been explained many times, is different from happiness (that depends on circumstances).  Joy depends on the certain hope that no matter what we will win.  The lower we go, in some ways the more happy we are that we know we will win with Christ.  
    Even in this coronavirus time, the virus cannot defeat our soul.  We will rise above it as individuals all the while praying that God will lift our nation above it socially, economically, mentally- and yes, spiritually.  

Prayer: Lord, thank you for the power that is yours that lifts even me up.  May my hope be anchored in your resurrection power.