Daily Reflection

For Paul, to be “in Christ” almost means to merge our life with Christ: Jesus’ life is our life, just as our lives became his life. Christ shared our life by “becoming sin;” when he died, we died, and that shared sin died with him; when he rose, we rose with him into “the righteousness of God.” Paul is using rich poetry here that is more than mere metaphor or imagination, trying to talk about something that our language cannot quantify but is, nevertheless, very real. In fact, it is the really real. In Christ we have died to sin and have risen up into life with God. Amazing!