It is said that Winston Churchill planned his own funeral. After the benediction, a bugler high in the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral was to play Taps, the universal signal that the day is over. Immediately after that, in the dramatic fashion that was common for Churchill, another bugler across the dome was to play Reveille, the universal signal that a new day has begun and it is time to rise up. This was Churchill’s way of saying that the last note for him—and for human history—would not be Taps. It would be Reveille. It will be so because of our hope in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In John 11:25, Jesus says, “…I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Well, do you?