New Life ♥

This morning as I was reading in Romans 6, I was so amazed by what it was saying.

"We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who has died has been set free from sin." (4-7)

Because Christ died for us, we have new life. It completely blows my mind that we can be made new and changed into something beautiful through this redemption. We were once in slavery of sin but because Jesus Christ gave His one and only life, we are dead to the sin that once controlled us. That is mind blowing! I guess the one thing that gets to me is how Jesus saw us worth His life - that we were more important than life itself. That His love is better than living. Even though we mess up so horribly sometimes, God wants us to have new life. We, myself included, have to remember that we are dead to sin since we have been raised up into new life with Christ. 


~ "For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace."