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Instruments of Righteousness
Taking life with Christ to our graves and back again
Easter Sunday — so many texts to choose from.
There is the resurrection story itself, the prophecies, and the talk of eternal life with God. I enjoy and appreciate them all, but one passage in Scripture about Jesus’ resurrection and life forever with Him has been sticking out at me.
Many of us are familiar with the sentiment Paul expresses in Romans 6. “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we may too live a new life.”
Verse 4 is great like that. Jesus died and rose from the dead, we accepted that, new life. Sign me up.
But we can’t stop at verse 4.
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
This chapter is jam-packed. It’s where we derive much of our theology on baptism, grace, and living a new life with Christ. But Paul doesn’t stay on one topic long, and it’s not a chapter we should read any verse from in isolation.
