For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.  Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

I Corinthians 15:16-22

May God bless you as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord.

Josh H.

Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil (1 Peter 3: 10-12, quoting Psalm 34:12-16).

In the last couple of weeks I have been pondering the idea of sin. Over the past five years I have gone through different ideas of what the rigteousness of God looks like in the believer. I have believed before that we will never be good enough, but God for the sake of Christ simply endures our pitifulness and wretchedness. In essence, he holds His nose as He draws us close. Then I came to understand that a believer has become the righteous of God in Christ Jesus because the One who was truly righteous became sin for us. So we are not putrid to Him. Christ was the firstborn of many brethren. So having more rightly understood our position in Christ I then turned to our progression in Christ. “When will I reach the point in which the same old sins do not bother me anymore, Lord?” I understood that I was dead to sin but alive to God. “So, Father, why did I think that thought or say that harsh word or use that critical tone of voice or get so jealous about what that person has or knows?” Continue reading ‘Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Saint!’