Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Sharing in the Death & Resurrection (Part 1 of 3)

“If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin – because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.” –Rom 6:5-7

We just rearranged our house…it just wasn’t working how we had it.  We moved my office across the house to be further away from the playroom since it was difficult to work in the same room as an adorable 10 month old screaming “papa” (which is what he has decided to call me). 

The other day I was working in my new relocated office when I needed a book.  I stood up, walked across the house, and got all the way to the play room to realize that the book I was looking for wasn’t in this room anymore.  In fact, it was in the room I just walked out of.  I was so used to it being in the other room that I didn’t even think about the fact that the book accessible to me without even leaving my chair. 

We do the same thing in our spiritual lives.  This passage tells us that the old self has been crucified.  Yet we still, figuratively, walk all the way across the house to get something that is no longer there.  Even though the old self isn’t there, we seek to find it.  We, without thinking, go back to our sinful lives, our sinful habits, and our sinful desires…even though that part of us has been killed. 

The death and resurrection has many implications, and one of those is that we share in it.  Our old self has died just as Christ died.  Begin to live out the power of the cross.  Realize that your old self is no longer there!  Stop living like it is there.  It has died, so stop going back to it.  That self was crucified and buried.  Do not dig up what God has buried.  There is a new life you are called to live.  Live it! 

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