Friday, July 30, 2010

LIFE: Do you have it!

Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
6:5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

I believe and accept by faith that Jesus died for me though I cannot comprehend it. I know that His death on the cross has taken away my sin because He tells me that He died for our sins. My quilt and shame have died and been buried with Christ who loved me and died for me that I might truly live for Him. My constant sinful behavior has been crucified and replaced with a desire to know and live for Jesus who died for me. The resurrection has made this possible because Jesus rose again from the grave and is alive. Because He lives I now have true life; His life in me the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27) Before we can live for Jesus we must be willing to die with Jesus. When Christ calls us He calls us to come and die to self that we might live for God. No man can experience the new life in Christ, until he has first experienced the death of the old life of himself. The Apostle Paul explained it this way, I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20

A radically changed life is what true salvation from God will accomplish. The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life set apart for God. If any man commits himself to Christ radical change will be unavoidable. Praise Jesus for new life! Thank Him for not leaving us like He found us! Though we have not yet attained to the fullness of what we will be one day in Christ; we can now say I am not what I was apart from Him. I have been changed by the grace of God! Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus for saving me and giving me LIFE!!!

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