This is by far one of my most favourite passages I have read so far! So straightforward.... Gospel-centred.... gets right to the point of why we call Jesus our Saviour in the first place. :)
Romans 6:3-4
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
This verse is beautiful. It describes how we are linked to Jesus, it describes our loving relationship with Him. Through Him we get to live a new life to glorify our Lord, to do everything in His name. Christ took our hand and protected us from God's judgement for the wickedness in the world. When I first accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour, I didn't truly understand the importance and the depth of what He did for me so many thousand years ago. Now as I continue to grow into a stronger, more spiritually mature woman of God, I give my fullest gratitude to God for sending His one and only Son to help cleanse the world from all evil and sin.
The passage continues on by emphasizing how we are united with Jesus. We are united and related in such a way that when Jesus died on the cross, our body which was full of sin, temptations, distractions was done away with as well.... and when Jesus rose again through the resurrection, we too rose with Him, renewed and purified. Jesus was able to overcome death and sin once and for all, now to live an eternal life with God. I am alive and well and so happy and willing to live this temporary life to worship, praise, glorify... to do whatever is pleasing to God until my eternal life in Heaven will I will still continue to rejoice in His grace for me.
The instructions are clear:
Romans 6: 12-14
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Don not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been nrought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Everything in this world is temporary, I can be easily so caught up by materialistic things, worldly desires, temptations of the flesh... but what can be more expensive and cherished than what awaits us in God's kingdom? :)
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