Thoughts for another day

Dec. 6, 2013.

Today's verse: Rom. 6:5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

A Christian, a person baptized in Christ Jesus always has hope, for in baptism, he has been planted into the likeness of the death of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world and Paul further says in the same chapter that we who were baptized into Christ were baptized into His death; it means we’re buried with Him by baptism into death, by which we died to self and now live for Him.  In rising after our baptism, we’re promised His Grace and His Spirit’s power to a new life.  It’s to this new life that we’re born again to be raised unto the likeness of His resurrection.

We need to be born again because we were not born perfect.  We were injected with sin because of the sin of Adam, which remains in our core and every person born of father and mother on this earth has the sin of Adam transmitted through the ages, even as his dna is transmitted by which we’re born like Adam, human in nature; and death and misery were our inheritance.  Now thanks to God’s love and mercy, He removed this load of death and misery from us when we were baptized in the Name of His Son, Jesus Christ and He gave us new life, which beckons us to live abundantly here on earth and life eternal thereafter.  We must through baptism be born again as Jesus clearly said, Jn. 3:3, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’  Through baptism we’re translated into new beings where we gradually turn into the likeness of the Son of God, who is our eternal example and after Whom we must desire so that we move from one step of glory to the other, a life driven and controlled by the Holy Spirit. 

The Blood of Christ makes us perfect before God and I may say, every person who has the Blood of Christ on Him is pleasing to God for we’re reflected as His Son, in whom He is well pleased.  We must not be proud of this for it’s not our work but Christ’s, Who went to the Cross, seeking and keeping His Father’s will.  And living this Christian life in all seriousness will ensure that we have the likeness of Christ’s resurrection, by which we will rise and be with His Father; our Father, in heaven ever more. Amen.