Death Embrace
Psalms 85:6 Will You not revive us again so that Your people may rejoice in You?
You really don’t know what living is until you’ve had one true moment of rejoicing in the Lord. Yet, there is this continual embrace of things that are so far removed from the realm of the living- things that are dead and pull those who embrace them towards death. It would be like hugging a dead loved one. There may be a time when this would be appropriate during mourning, but it would be very detrimental to one’s health to hold on to that loved one, not bury them, and continue in an embrace with death.
When there is so much to be experienced in the life that God has provided through Christ, it’s so important that those dead things of the past get buried and forgotten. Each time they are exhumed in an attempt to revive old times, the new reason to rejoice in God is contaminated with that old dead man. It really is amazing how faithful is the life provided for us in Christ, though. Even though we may be drawn away to the decaying deadness of world’s cadavers, there is a renewal of life merely waiting for the adjustment of our embrace. True life comes with its spirit of rejoicing and happiness every time Jesus is chosen as the one to be embraced. Again and again He stands by patiently waiting to shine His light once more on our awareness. He will, without fail, infuse us with a life that is far removed from the depressing bondage of the death embrace. He’ll revive us again, and we’ll know what living is in moment after moment of rejoicing in Him.
If there is dissatisfaction with the present life experience, if there is a lack of joy and fulfillment in living, it is a good time to consider what is getting our attention and affection- that old dead man, or the newness and freshness that never grows stale in the life of Christ. He will revive again and replace mourning with rejoicing, sorrow with gladness, and old with new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Colossians 3:1-5 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
