IN THE BEGINNING THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
Have you decided to make the kingdom of God your home? If so, you will live by the Spirit of God, and you will abide in Christ. And just as Christ has suffered and died, we shall suffer and die daily while alive in this flesh. Still, the soul has been saved at the point of conversion. The saints have i our souls already been liberated from the bondage of sin and the world's dominion. That means that our spirit man is not controlled by sin or the world. The saints of God have newness of life; we walk and live as resurrected beings--with all the power due us. (Even as Satan tries to throw everything at us, we keep getting up and giving birth to new life!)"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body" 2 Corinthians 4:8-10.
Yes, what a wonderful life to be planted together in the likenes of Christ's death. For the true church of God does not operate by the flesh, nor is ruled by it. We are dead to sin and its dominance. We are dead to the world and its depression. We are dead, laid down in the rich soil of the Kingdom of God. And that which has died is being made alive by the Spirit of God to produce those things pleasing to God.
Today, let us rejoice in all that our Savior as already accomplished for our well-being!
