This is a writing by MaxLucado from his book "When Christ Comes". Sometimes we need to be reminded. Just this morning a friend wrote about an untimely death of a friend and a funeral they just as soon not have attended yesterday:

"When Jesus was raised from the dead, it wa a signal of the end of death-as-the-end."   -- Romans 6:5 - 6

Don't you love that sentence? "It was the signal of the end of death-as-the-end." The resurrection is an exploding flare announcing to all sincere seekers that it is safe to believe. Safe to believe in ultimate justice. Safe to believe in eternal bodies. Safe to believe in heaven as our estate and the earth as its porch. Safe to believe in a time when questions won't keep us awake and pain won't keep us down. Safe to believe in open graves and endless days and genuine praise.

Because we can accept the resurrection story, it is safe to accept the rest of the story.