A Reflection On New Life

When I want to live in the truth of the Resurrection

The life that we live by faith is an exchanged life—everything that we were went with Jesus on the cross; everything that He is was raised from the tomb and is given to us. We gave up everything in our old nature to have that substitute on the cross. In return, we gained the life of the everlasting Son of the living God, with all of His privileges and power. What an exchange!

The only sad thing about this exchange is that we are forgetful creatures. Having accepted the Cross as our payment for sin, we forget to live in the Resurrection that follows. Our old natures remind us of what we were before the Cross. And we listen.

Yet Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life. He offers to fill us with His glorified self. The substitution of the Cross is not just in death, but in resurrection. We may now live in the power that raised Him—but only if we live by faith. Are you living that life? Or better yet, is He living that life in you? Believe in the Resurrection and the Life.

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.”

John 11:25