New insights... from an old book... bring me face to face... with my own unbelief... and limited understanding... of His crucifixion... my baptism into His death... and resurrection...
The real meaning behind baptism is that in the cross we were "baptized" into the historic death of Christ, so that His death became ours. Our death and His became then so closely identified that it is impossible to divide between them. It is to this historic "baptism" --- this God-wrought union with Him --- that we assent when we go down into the water. Our public testimony in baptism today is our admission that the death of Christ two thousand years ago was a mighty all-inclusive death, mighty enough and all-inclusive enough to carry away in it and bring to an end everything in us that is not of God.
--- Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian LifeHis death... my death...
Receiving His crucifixion... brings to an end... everything in me that is not of God...
His resurrection... my resurrection...
Longing... to take hold of the freedom from sin He says is mine...
Seeking... asking Him to open my eyes... and heart... to the Truth...
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20 ESV
Lord Jesus... open my eyes to the reality of my death...
and resurrection... in You...
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