Resurrection of Me Through Christ

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Growing up I remember that Easter was about Jesus, but remember more bunnies than anything else.  As a teenager when I came to Christ my whole perspective about Easter changed.  There were no more bunnies!! I understood the connection there was - spring, flowers, life - but knew that life did not come though a change in season, but through a decision to change who will govern my life; to follow the Giver of Life. At that point I had LIFE!

"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17~ NLT

The word is not speaking of a physical change - but a spiritual one - our spirit is redeemed, through the sacrifice of Jesus. Our lives are no longer worldly; they are now spiritual. Our “death” is that of the old sin nature which was nailed to the cross with Christ. It was buried with Him, and just as He was raised up by the Father, so are we raised up to “walk in newness of life”.

"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 too may live a new life."  ~ Romans 6:4 ~ NIV

Now we truly belong to God - we are His children!  Now we can understand the language of Christ - understand all that is written in the Bible.  Discern when the Holy Spirit is guiding us or when our old flesh wants to tell us what to do. We receive the Promises that God has given us from the beginning of time! 

BUT most importantly WE COME TO LIVE OUT OUR PURPOSE!!!

We were formed in the mind of God and created by His power and for His glory.

¹ You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
you, LORD, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,God!
How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.

~Psalm 139~

I have said yearly, I want to be more disciplined in reading my bible, in studying the Word more, in fasting, in praying, being a more encouraging wife to my husband, a better mom to my children and the list can go on, but one thing that the Lord has reminded me of during this season is that through Christ He has resurrected the me He had destined - I am living out what He created me to be - HIS DAUGHTER and I am a work in progress.  Accepting Christ, as the REDEEMER AND SAVIOR of my life is the greatest decision in my life that my family will benefit. It is greater than all the desires I have for my family, because now they have a wife and mother that desires to walk with the Lord and live in the Lord's will!

Through His sacrifice everything is possible. 

And by His MERCY AND GRACE

I am a better DAUGHTER

I am a better WIFE

I am a better MOTHER

BECAUSE OF WHAT CHRIST DID FOR ME

He gave me a NEW LIFE
He gives me A PURPOSE

Today you are living out HIS PURPOSE just by living! 

Your decision to FOLLOW HIM

will ECHO INTO ALL THE GENERATIONS THAT FOLLOW YOU!!

That is the IMPACT that you HAVE made onto your CHILDREN today and always!!

Walking in Grace,

Monica