Hunt Dave An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith

It is not through gritting our teeth and determining by our willpower that we overcome temptation, but in accepting the fact that we are dead in Christ. The dead no longer lust, lose their tempers, or act selfishly. Our victory is in being "dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:11). We have given up life as we would live it in order to experience His life being lived in and through us. The life He gives is resurrection life, and only those who are dead can receive that. We cannot know the fullness of the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Christ, until we have willingly accepted His death as our death.

These few thoughts scarcely scratch the surface of the meaning of the cross (which includes, of course, the resurrection). In meditating upon this greatest event of all time and eternity, we begin to see both the horror of our sin and the amazing love of our Lord-the two chief motivations for holiness. May we abide in His love, that the cross so fully proved, and become the messengers and channels of that love to the world for which He died.