Reborn

Do you know, brother and sister in Christ, someone who has risen from the dead? Well, if you still think you have not met anyone on whom this miracle has operated, run to a mirror and say hello to yourself. Yes, there was a time when you were dead in his crimes and sins, and by the grace and will of God, He made him rise to a new life to no longer be a conscious slave of such delinquency (And He gave life to you, who were dead in (because of) their trespasses and sins Ephesians 2: 1). We were buried and resurrected with Christ by the hand of God in an irreversible act of grace and mercy towards our criminal nature. I don't say it, God himself says it: Buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him, through faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead. (Col 2.12)

In the last day our resurrection will have another connotation; It will be different, because we will walk hand in hand with God and we will live in eternity. And what then does it mean that God has raised us to a new life here on earth so that we can live in harmony with one another and have full communion with his Son Jesus Christ?

Our lives are in it, because it implies looking at things above and renouncing many here below and thus being transformed from glory to glory in the very image of Him, (2 Corinthians 3:18) living a life that it pleases him, by the faith that promotes, from the heart, the works that glorify the name of the Lord. Without death there is no resurrection. If God raised us "while alive," it is because we were truly dead "while alive" because of our transgressions and rebellions against our creator. M. Henry comments that sin is the death of the soul and that the state of sin is the state of conformity with this world. What reason is he! How much the world needs to know this truth! Christianity is not about debtors and creditors, but about love.

He first loved us, made us sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2: 6) to show the abundant riches of his grace (Ephesians 2: 7) by the extraordinary act of conceiving us his workmanship to do good. We could not be debtors of Christ for two reasons: the simple fact that our salvation has been a gift (gift) from God and because humanly we could not have done anything to achieve it. The glory, the merit, is only of God. No one can boast of having achieved salvation on his own merits.

Did you look at yourself in the mirror of your conscience and realize that you are a new creature because God raised you from the dead? If you have time, I invite you to look in your Bible and meditate on the passage from Ephesians 2: 1-10. I am sure it will be an incomparable delight to you.

Our definitive freedom was given to us with the resurrection of Christ from his death on Calvary, but let us not forget that what we are today is the result of a new life in Christ because God also led us to a spiritual crucifixion from where we emerged, as new creation, to honor only the one who created us from the womb of our mothers, and from the very spiritual birth that left behind the disordered desires of the flesh.

Look up towards divine things, not with the ecstasy of a religious spiritualism thickened by an emotional faith that in little or nothing edifies us, but to seek the one who is at the right hand of God the Father and in the daily longing to be filled. of his Spirit, that is, to allow himself to be directed and to obey that voice of God that we all have within us.

One of the most beautiful things that God says about his children is that we are accepted in Christ. His blood covered all disorders and sins, the cause of which we wandered through the world, wanderers of all human miseries (without even knowing it), like sheep without a shepherd and at the mercy of the deceit's lies. But one day - surely you remember - He called you and me, crucified such disorders with Christ and resurrected us together with Him. From then on, and despite the daily and inevitable ups and downs of Christian life, our life does not has been the same. We are blessed and by far more than conquerors in this new birth in the Spirit. Nothing is comparable to that great blessing.

God bless you!