Our Gift From
God!
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive
together with Him, having forgiven you all
trespasses."
Colossians 2: 13
Years ago, a man in the cemetery
business was also a lay
evangelist.
When speaking to crowds, he'd
humor them by saying
he's in the “underground condominium” business, then
transition to there is no life in cemeteries. They are filled
with the bodies of people from whom life has departed
until the end of the age.
Paul used the idea of death, and bringing dead back to
life, as an analogy of what it means to receive the gift of
salvation. He said all, apart from Christ, are spiritually
“dead in [their] trespasses.” But by a miracle of grace,
we
have been “made alive together with [Christ],” having
been forgiven of “all trespasses.”
Think what a gift from God that spiritual life is! Can the
dead bodies
in a cemetery will themselves back to life?
Of course not, and neither can those who are spiritually
dead give themselves new spiritual life.
If you are in Christ, you have been given new life
as a free gift of God (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8).
Give Him thanks today
for that gift!
"Faith is not an
achievement, it is a gift."
Roland Bainton