“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24 NIV
A key to bearing fruit, a key to experiencing, abundant life is dying in specific ways, in dying to ourselves and our ways and our preferences, what we want, being crucified with Christ. Paul speaks of this in Galatians 2:20. It’s the summary of the Christian life. I’ve been crucified with Christ. I no longer live. It’s Christ who lives in me. I’ve died to myself. The life I live now in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. We must die to self if we’re going to live. This is a daily journey. “Anyone would follow after me,” Jesus says, “Let him take up his cross daily, die to himself. Die to sin.” It’s dying to sin and sinful desires and thoughts and words and actions, to every trace of sin in us. We want to die to it, to die to self, to die to sin, and to die to the ways of this world. Dying to the way this world defines success, to the way this world defines pleasure, to the way this world defines who we are and what we should be doing with our lives. Choosing to live according to the way the Word of God defines our lives and the way God’s word defines success and the way God’s word defines the purpose of our lives. Abundant life is dying to self, sin and the world.
PRAYER THOUGHT
Lord Jesus, we want to live according to Your wants.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Lord, we want to live according to Your wants. Help us to die to sin today, to turn from it, every temptation. God, help us to flee sin in every way, to live in holiness today. AMEN
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE READING ASSOCIATION (IBRA)
Genesis 2:19-25
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