Death

"Are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" Romans 6:3.

Huh? What's with the baptism thing, all of a sudden? We were talking about faith and being made right with God. Talking about Jesus and his death. About the free gift of God's grace in Christ. We're saved by faith in Jesus, not by works of law. So, why not just keep on living it up in the ways of sin since doing good works got us nowhere anyway? Yeah. Why not?! Well, here's why not --> because we died. We died with Jesus. We died to just keeping on living it up in the ways of sin. Oh, really now? When did we die with Jesus? When we were baptized into him. That's what the Bible says, if you can believe that.

With a brother or sister today, we remember being dunked into Jesus, we reflect on our death with Christ. And, together, we give thanks that God raised us up with Jesus out of the grave into life. New life. With Jesus.