May the mumbling commence!
Lately, the zombie nation has arisen. You see it in video games, books and movies. Zombies are in vogue. Zombies are the risen dead, who rise diminished. They live in pain. Is that any way to live?
Now did you realize that those who are in Christ Jesus are also raised from the dead? Christians are raised to a life exponentially amplified. The new life in Christ makes the old life look like the life of a zombie. Read from Romans chapter six (NASB):
For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (Verses 5-13)
Christians have died with Christ only to be raised to a new life. In this new life, we leave sin and death behind. Instead of living for our appetites, we live for God – to glorify the name of the Lord. We now use our bodies as instruments of righteousness – no longer do they belong to sin.
Say goodbye to the former zombie-like life. Say hello to life in a new and vibrant existence with Christ Jesus.
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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