We are to be put to death; dead to our sins and dead to our flesh. But we are to live; robustly and wonderfully!
The "ourselves" are to be alive...very much alive in Christ!
Our lives are to be exaggerated in wonder, in sacrifice, in beauty, in persecution, in celebration for we live a resurrected life! Love right now; every right now that is right now. Let nothing set you back but what isn't beneficial to the kingdom when enduring setback.
How many times one can look across the faces of the gathered and there is not a showing of we just won the lottery!!!! Sometimes it appears more like oh I just hate it when we sing this song.
Every day is a new Today and every one of those new todays is loaded with the fullness of God...Eph. 3:19.
I visited with a brother this week whose feet hurt and his shoulder is separated and on the dismality went. He is always down and out; poor me-ism has him by the throat. Yet a lot of people have feet which hurt; some have no feet at all. Others have shoulders separated while children have parents separated.
Ours is surely not to deny our stresses; but to give them to God's care. Whether Paul was in prison or a free man, he was still singing.
Keep singing! Keep smiling! Keep believing! God makes a difference. May our hearts burst in wonder at every occasion for God is aware of a tomb with His own Son while also aware the third day was coming!
The ourselves of us is bravely and courageously alive! May we notify our faces!!!
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