"You were raised with Christ through faith, by God's work," Colossians 2:12.
Amazing! Buried with Christ, raised with Christ! Is this for real? How do you know? How can you know? You go in the water, you come up out the water. What changed? Did we get a good feeling? Is there just something that happened that we can't say in so many words? Is that how we know we've been raised? Is that confidence all about our emotional/feeling/affective state? We know because we feel good? Well, maybe. Yet. Here's how the Good Book says we know: by faith. Faith. Trust in God's work. Faith in God who raised Christ up from the dead.
We find a brother or sister today to express joy in God's joining Christ in us to life! And, together, we give thanks that he receives our simple trust in him worthy of his mighty power to save.
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