Death is always creeping around us. And not just physical death, but the death that comes from sin in our lives. Anytime we sin, we bring an element of death into our lives. I see and feel the effects of sin in my own life, realizing that when I choose to sin, I choose to welcome death into my very existence. Sin is limiting and crippling, leading to death in me (death in any and all areas of my life).
God desires life for me instead of death. And it is because of this desire that He sent Jesus to earth to live among humanity, become the ultimate sacrifice (making payment for my sin), and ultimately conquer death of all kinds. Through His sacrifice and His conquering death, Jesus made a way for me to receive life from God. No longer am I bound to continue to live full of death, but am able to be connected to God and to be given life. Those places of sin and death no longer have to remain in me. When I give them over to God for Him to change me, I can be freed from the death that I possess and can be given life. Because of Jesus, I can be fully alive.
This is what I will be celebrating on Sunday. Of course, I will enjoy all the traditional holiday festivities (Chris H., I will beat you this year at the Gingerbread House Contest) but will also be holding deeply to the truth that Jesus came so that I can be made alive and do not have to walk around embodying death.
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