Limiting the Resurrection either to the past or to the future makes the present risenness of Jesus largely irrelevant, safeguards us from interference with the ordinary rounds and daily routine of our lives, and preempts communion now with Jesus as a living person. In other words, the Resurrection needs to be experienced as present risenness. If we take seriously the word of the risen Christ—“Know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time” (Matthew 28:20)— we should expect that He will be actively present in our lives. If our faith is alive and luminous, we will be alert to moments,
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