For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.~2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Last Friday we commemorated Good Friday. The day when our Lord and Savior took our sins upon Himself and paid the penalty of death. On Sunday we celebrated the truth of the gospel. Jesus got up! Conquering sin and death for us. So what’s next?
I would “argue” that what’s next is living a life for Christ. As His word says, Christ’s love for us compels us to do so. We no longer live for self, but rather for our Savior. How do we do that ?
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.~Romans 12:1-2
We live as living sacrifice, not conforming to the ways of this world but rather renewing our minds. We our minds on Christ. We ask Him for wisdom (James 1:5) and we lean into the fact that “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness”(2 Peter 1:3).
We love God hard and we love our neighbor( Mathew 22:37-40). It has to be more than just a routine ceremony that we go through year after year. His life, death, and resurrection showed His love and now it’s time to show ours. The beauty of it is that He gives us everything we need to take the next step so we are not striving but rather striding in His love.
Lord, thank You for your compelling love for me and my neighbor. Thank You for dying for me and I ask that You show me how to live for You. How to walk in relationship with my risen Savior. In Jesus name. Amen
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