A Shot in the Arm, Part 4

If I were to be judged before I died, I would be guilty and convicted for every wrong thing that I have done. But, if I die and come back to life as another person, how can I be punished as the person I was before?

The religious thinking that attempts to preserve my life and righteousness is the very thing that caused me to lose the eternal life that I was seeking. The more I fought to attain eternal life and to hold off death, the more the inevitability of death revealed itself. To the point that I've even lied to myself in order to feel "as if" I was alive and that others around me were dead, when I am really no different than they are. On the other hand it is the very death that I have sought to prevent, both spiritually and physically, that sets me free from this body of death and its slavery to sin.

In Jesus, I have experienced that death that is surely to come already in order that I might enjoy the newness of life, NOW. As Paul might say, "I am really dead and the real life I'm living, isn't me living but Jesus Christ living in me!"

Previous Comments:

Bill,

This post was a shot in the arm Dr. Harry Tick, thanks! Believers in Life Himself are not immune from feelings of fear. Fear of falling into sin, fear of death, etc. The reminder that we've already "experienced that death that is surely to come already in order that I might enjoy the newness of life, NOW" is better than a booster shot any day, bro. We be jommin'. :-)

agapealoha love dave c.

Posted by: Dave Cossaboon at August 4, 2003 03:54 PM