This is Levi. He's sixteen, and he lives in Switzerland, between the mountains and the lakes.

Mornings start early here. Fresh air, birdsong, and a head full of ideas.

At sixteen, he's already an entrepreneur and a skilled AI engineer.

He loves working with AI, and he codes a lot: apps, tools, and websites like this one. Usually late into the night.

Levi writes code every day. But Someone… wrote him first.

Before his first breath, God knew him.

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

Psalm 139:16 · NASB 1995

Your days are in that book too. You were made to be close to Him.

But we let go of His hand. We wanted our own way instead of His. The Bible calls that sin.

Every one of us has fallen short. Me too. Sin is not one rule we broke once. It's a distance from God we can't close on our own.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:23 · NASB 1995

And sin pays a wage. The Bible is honest about it: the result is death, separated from God forever.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23 · NASB 1995

But God did not leave us there.

He came Himself, in Jesus, to close the distance we never could. The night before the cross, He prayed.

Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.

Luke 22:42 · NASB 1995

The cup was the cross, and the weight of all our sin. He could have walked away. He stayed.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on the cross for our sins. He took the wage we earned.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8 · NASB 1995

He took our place. Our debt is paid in full.

It is finished!

John 19:30 · NASB 1995

His mother held Him one last time. Everyone thought it was over.

That evening, Joseph, a secret follower of Jesus, asked for His body.

Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

Mark 15:46 · NASB 1995

Saturday. The stone was sealed. Soldiers stood guard. Silence.

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Luke 23:56 · NASB 1995

Yet He had told them He would rise again on the third day.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

Luke 24:1 · NASB 1995

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Luke 24:2-3 · NASB 1995

Then an angel spoke to them.

He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying.

Matthew 28:6 · NASB 1995

And on the third day, He rose again. The grave is empty, and that changes everything.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 · NASB 1995

Death did not have the last word. Jesus did. And He is alive today.

Mary Magdalene stayed at the tomb, weeping. A man spoke to her. She thought He was the gardener.

Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher).

John 20:16 · NASB 1995

He called her by her name. He knows yours too.

And He offers you a new life with God, forever. The Bible calls it grace.

It's a gift, not a wage. You can't earn it. You can only receive it.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:16 · NASB 1995

This door has no handle on the outside. It opens only from within. And He is still knocking.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

Revelation 3:20 · NASB 1995

You don't have to be perfect. Just open the door, and tell Him you need Him.