We usually think of death as the cessation of life. Scripture tells us it’s the beginning of life. How can that be?
Paul tells us to consider ourselves dead to sin but alive to God (Romans 6:11). Elsewhere he says that we were once dead in or sins, but God made us alive in Christ and forgave all our sins (Colossians 2:13).
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Christians look forward to the resurrection of the dead, as promised through Jesus’ own resurrection. What about the resurrection of the living?
Many of us go through life doing the same things, including making the same mistakes, over and over. Someone has observed that a rut is nothing but a coffin with the ends knocked out. Just as there is new life after physical death, so is there new life after stagnation. Lazarus died physically, but we can take his death and rising from death as a metaphor for reawakening to new life after a period of spiritual slumber.
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