The First Cell of a New Creation

When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the old marrow — diseased, failing, producing only death — is destroyed. New donor marrow is infused, and then comes the hardest part: waiting. Days pass. Sometimes weeks. The patient is utterly vulnerable, suspended between the old system that was killing them and the new life that hasn't yet taken hold.

Then one morning, a lab report shows it — the first new healthy cell, produced not by the patient's failing body but by the donor's marrow. Doctors call this moment "engraftment." That single cell is everything. It is living, measurable proof that the transplant has taken. What happened in that one cell will happen in millions more. The patient's entire blood system will be remade.

Paul calls Christ's resurrection the "firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep." Jesus is the engraftment. His resurrection isn't an isolated miracle to admire from a distance — it is the first cell of a whole new creation. What God did in Him on Easter morning, He will do in every person who belongs to Christ. Death, that ancient disease running through humanity's bloodline since Adam, is being overcome — not in theory, but in demonstrated, verified fact.

The first cell has appeared. The full harvest is guaranteed. And the last enemy — death itself — will be destroyed.