If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. - Col 3:1-4
Even with multiple reflections on scripture throughout the day, with time spent considering God's great love and mercy, with prayers of petition offered up for those I love, I find it challenging to keep my mind fixed on things that are above.
Yet this passage gets to the core of Easter: we have died in Christ to our sin, and have been raised with him to new life. Our life in him, then, should be a resurrected life, no longer rooted in our sinful nature but reformed, conformed, confirmed, and transformed - and thereby rooted - in Christ Jesus.
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