Rom 6:4: “…just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” [NKJV]
These few days after the new year begins, I hear a lot about newness. New diets (or a return to old ones), new exercise programs, new clothes, new toys, new books, new computer games, new, new, new. In another couple months those things will be old, old, old, if they even still exist.
Yet Paul is clear. Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father. He left that tomb and walked among His own for 40 days. 40 days! He was not an apparition, it was not group hysteria, it was not a hoax. He was dead. He now was raised to newness of life. He walked and talked and ate with more than 500. He never returned to the dead, instead He ascended alive into heaven and the presence of His Father.
Christ has conquered death by the power of the glory of the Father. Through that same power, we also walk in newness of life. We were dead in trespasses and sins and now we are alive. [Colossians 2]
We are to continually walk in this newness of life, this God-given, eternal, life of Christ. One day we are even going to walk right through death and into the presence of the Father and all who have been made alive by His glory!
WOW!
