Be Still . . .
Devotionals for Daily Living ©
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
(Romans 6:8-9 (NIV))
This is the backbone of our hope and our salvation. Death is the ultimate winner in our lives if we do not accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior.
Spiritual death is the eternal separation of creation from Creator. There is nothing that we can do on our own that will keep us from experiencing both a physical death and a spiritual death. Yet, there is someone who has overcome the physical death, and by doing this, has also overcome the spiritual death.
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, came to die for us. But death did not hold Him. On the third day, He arose to defeat the power of death and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father. All who call upon the name of Jesus have the assured hope that they too will overcome death.
This does not mean that we will not face the physical death, for even Jesus faced this. It does mean that we who place our faith in Jesus Christ will have a mediator who will intercede for us and keep us from the spiritual death that comes with the physical death.
These bodies that we now know as ours are only a shell for our true selves. They will pass away, but we shall live eternally with God and Jesus because we have placed our faith in Him!
Copyright 1998 – 2015 Dennis J. Smock
Daily Living Ministries, Inc.
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