Dec 13

“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

Dead is not the way we would like to describe ourselves, and yet it is the definition which the Word of God gives to those who are saved and thus are alive in Christ. So we could say we are dead in one sense and yet alive in another. This holds true because when we come to Jesus and find new life - spiritual life in Him, we are supposed to cease, desist and turn from the ‘old’ life we had prior to our salvation. The bible calls the life we had before we came to Christ the “old man”, and it teaches that if we are in Christ, the old has passed away (it is dead) and we have become new creatures.  This means we are supposed to be ‘dead’ to – the old lusts, ambitions, choices, behaviour and sins. If we are truly ‘in Christ’ we should be unable and unwilling to function on the old plane, but find our life and pleasure only in Jesus and through the values and ways He wants us to live by. That’s a ‘good’ way to be dead! Being dead to sin and to ourselves, means we are alive in righteousness and in the Spirit of God! The Apostle Paul found it necessary to renew his commitment of ‘dying-to-the-flesh-to-live-in-the -Spirit’, on a daily basis. It seems logical that if he who served God so well needed to do this, perhaps we too should consider it a daily necessity! If we are running ‘our own show’ instead of letting Jesus rule in our lives, there is every likelihood that we are actually letting the zombie of our flesh (the old dead man) rule, and in spite of being ‘born again’ in title, we are actually denying and turning down the very life Jesus gave us, and that this biblical and liberating truth is proposing.


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