I
heard someone say the other day, "Dead is Dead". That's kind of
blunt, but that's what it comes down to for all of us. Will we choose to devote
ourselves entirely to Someone who’s alive and can bring us vitality, victory,
fruitfulness, and freedom? Or will we keep trying to hold on to our old existence
– something that’s dead and ought to be buried?
We are
spiritually lifeless without any connection to God. Baptism in the Spirit is a
universal reality for Christians. For we were all baptized by one
Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all
given the one Spirit to drink.– 1 Corinthians 12:13
We can
die or we can be dyed by Jesus Christ. We are different and are living in a
different environment after we accept Christ – we are now the color of Christ!
Jesus
promises that the Holy Spirit comes to stay.
And I
will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you
forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither
sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in
you.– John 14:16-17
He
thinks with incredible wisdom and intelligence, because “the Spirit searches
everything, even the depths of God” (1 Cor. 2:10)
All
believers can be alive and over-flowing with the Spirit if we choose.
What
are you choosing this day?
Be
wise - be anointed - be alive in Christ.
Amen?
Amen?
