As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions
—it is by grace you have been saved.
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
(Ephesians 2:1, 5, 6 NIV)
We were literally dead, our life of sin was a living death. We were without hope. All was dark and broken.
Yet we have died and now we are alive! As we received Jesus we we were baptized into his death and resurrection. So we are alive as Christ is alive having risen from the grave victorious as we celebrated at Easter.
Yet this goes beyond temporal life in this world. This is spiritual life and death. Before Christ in us we were dead physically and spiritually. Now we are alive physically and spiritually! Though heaven is not yet fully here when Christ came he began to make things new and his kingdom began to break into the world. As Jesus sent his followers in Luke 9 and 10 to say the kingdom of God is near so we the church continue to bring pieces of heaven and the kingdom here and now around us. We are living pieces of heaven on our eternal trajectory now. We don't need to wait until heaven. We are bringing heaven even now!
Let us live abundantly and fully as citizens of heaven here and now in the world! Christ thank you for this life. Help me to live it abundantly and to bring your kingdom here and now around me!
He has risen and so have we, lets live!
Amen
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