Made Alive from Death in Christ

Humanity is a creature fraught with contradiction.  We exhaust our lives' resource asserting our dominance of will and strength of personhood while we exert the majority of our expertise and skill to create lives of comfort in food and security, all the time devoting the majority of our intellect to the overwhelming task of defeating death.  It is a strange phenomena inherent to the human condition: always bettering life to never face death.

In truth, it is death itself that causes the distraction of this world; that creeping villain that lurks behind every human, awaiting his victory over the strings of our life.  Humanity exalts the latest advancements in science and medicine as far as those advancements make life longer or, at least, more pleasurable for the duration.  It is a funny business to spend life concerned with death.  This explains our utter fascination with temporal distraction.

However, despite our best efforts at delusion by distraction, we cannot escape the reality of the situation, what's really going on.  The truth, the heart-wrenching truth, is that we recognize the preciousness of life.  In our hearts, down to our depths we understand that life itself is miraculous.  It is not accidental nor is it flippant.  On the contrary, life is a true treasure.

Think of an infant.  As absurd as generalities may be, there may be no human being alive, that does not realize their worth.  To feel the newness of every moment that an infant experiences is one of the true joys of human life.  Even as the infant cries for her mother does she, unconsciously to be sure, defend her own vital and inherent worth.  And this preciousness is not lost on the imbecile either, I assure you.

It would appear that with all this marvel at life there runs a parallel fascination with the ever-present prospect of death.  There is perhaps no greater irony than to live a life in diversion to death, but yet no more accurate diagnosis of the human climate and condition.  Now think of how this reality runs square into the seemingly preposterous claims of Jesus the Christ, the One who claims to be the way, the truth, the life, and the the sole manner of obtaining eternal life by His grace received through faith.

Now in Christ the human's morbid fascination with death that overtakes our lives with distraction is transformed from a life lived dead to a reborn life made alive in Christ.  In Christ we are made new by His will and in His Word through faith in His work.  Thus the human is freed to live because of their death in Christ.  No longer are we obligated to the pall of life spent dealing with death, and we are now free in Christ to actually live for apart from His life-giving presence we are merely walking dead.  While there is much more to say about this dense topic, suffice to say the work of Christ has overcome what man could not: make alive what is by nature dead!