20 Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules:
Dead men don’t have to obey the speed limit! They don’t get cited for criminal misconduct. They never get in bar fights. They don’t commit adultery. They never steal. They don’t gossip. In fact, dead people never do anything wrong! Of course they never do anything right either! All joking aside there is a point to this: we are dead to the rules that held us captive to sin. We don’t have to obey our sin scripts, those endless conversations in our heads that drive us toward repeating the past. We don’t belong to the past. In Jesus we have been set free. The connection has been broken, our DSL, Dead Sin Link, has been severed. We now can choose to be connected to a new network, one where pleasing God is the language spoken. It is a wireless connection so we can always be “online” with God. Our connection does not have to be limited to certain times and places, certain “hotspots.” A clear strong signal is always available. There are never any “dead zones.” Our signal never gets “dropped.” When we said “yes” to Jesus, we started a new connection, one that will carry into eternity. The death-link was replaced by the life-link. But we must be “online” in order to get the latest for God. But even with all this connection available, still at times, probably more times than we are willing to admit, we choose to act as though we were dead. We pick up the dead carcass and move the hands and feet. We might move the mouth and do a bad ventriloquism act. But why put in all that effort? Why spend so much time with the dead you rather than the live you? Spend time today connecting and living in the live you.
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