There should have been a funeral the day I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
A goodbye made to the person I was before being found in Him.
A name change.
Maybe then I would have been quicker to realize and walk in my new (true) identity.
Romans 6 tells us:
“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.”
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
The one who conquers
In the letters to the churches in Revelation 2, Jesus says that the one who conquers will receive the promise.
To the Church in Ephesus – the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
To the Church in Smyrna – the one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.
To the Church in Pergamum – the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.
To the Church in Thyatira – the one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
To the Church in Sardis – the one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life.
To the Church in Philadelphia – the one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God.
To the Church in Laodicea – the one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Love conquers
Jesus demonstrated, with His sacrifice on the cross, that it is Love that conquers (1 Corinthians 13). Choosing to love, in obedience to the Father, reveals just how strong and courageous we are. What an act of love that rescues the world; Jesus, You reign!
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:9-11
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Be encouraged
🎶 Name Above All Names ~ Charity Gayle
The sun was darkened and the Heavens thundered
And for a moment death had thought it conquered
But it wasn’t over ’til You said, “It’s over”
Your word is greater still
The perfect sacrifice, Your body broken
As You restored to us what sin had stolen
Once and for all You tore the veil wide open
Your power is stronger still
All praise, all praise
To the name above all names
Jesus, you reign ’cause you’re the name above all names
