DAD'S RAMBLINGS – A Matter Of Death And Life
Romans 6:3-5
"Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism unto death, that just as Christ was raised from he dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection."
Death is the necessary precursor to life. Jesus said, speaking of His own impending death, that a grain of wheat planted in the ground dies and then produces much more grain (John 12:24). Jesus had to die to be resurrected. Paul echoed this when he wrote, "What you sow is not made alive unless it dies" (I Corinthians 15:34). Even in childbirth a part of the mother dies (the placenta) when the new life is born. Life comes out of death. Only after my body dies and is put into the ground will I experience the life of Heaven. So also, it is necessary in this life to die to my flesh in order to experience true life in Jesus. Death is not easy, but the life after death makes it worth the struggle.
TODAY'S THOUGHT: In order to have new life, the old must die.
Have a "new life" day. Love you.
Romans 6:3-5
"Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism unto death, that just as Christ was raised from he dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection."
Death is the necessary precursor to life. Jesus said, speaking of His own impending death, that a grain of wheat planted in the ground dies and then produces much more grain (John 12:24). Jesus had to die to be resurrected. Paul echoed this when he wrote, "What you sow is not made alive unless it dies" (I Corinthians 15:34). Even in childbirth a part of the mother dies (the placenta) when the new life is born. Life comes out of death. Only after my body dies and is put into the ground will I experience the life of Heaven. So also, it is necessary in this life to die to my flesh in order to experience true life in Jesus. Death is not easy, but the life after death makes it worth the struggle.
TODAY'S THOUGHT: In order to have new life, the old must die.
Have a "new life" day. Love you.
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