Stop doing dead things!

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. BUT because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved" (Ephesians 2:1-5).

I think the above passage makes it clear that we've been raised from death to life - from being one of those bandage-wrapped, stinky, decaying-hand, foot-falling-off zombies to someone who is alive, clean, dandy, as fresh as a daisy thank you!

So the question is: why do we still do things that are more appropriate for the corpses we once were, rather than the living beings we now are?

It's hard. Trust me, I know! I mess up the WHOLE time. And I think it's partly 'cause I haven't been trained in the new way of righteousness, and it's partly 'cause I don't click mentally that I don't have to behave the way I always do*.

Well, guess what?!? We don't have to do those things we used to do!! We are alive in Christ and no longer in the Camp of the Zombies! So let's stop doing dead things!

STOP!


*Obviously, there's more to that than this, but for the purposes of this post, let's not get too complicated.