As Christians we are alive both spiritually and physically. However, we do have to consider being dead in the flesh and surrender it to Jesus to be crucified every day. Consider yourselves dead. In Colossians it talks about setting your mind above where Christ is seated because you died to this life. And when Christ who is your life is revealed your life will be revealed with him.
This means that whatever baggage from your past that you try to hold on to is part of your dead life. Looking above is the cure for all the entitlement and victim mentality that we have because it is all death lingering over you. It is clear that whatever we deal with and what we go through is not our real life. After we come to faith in Christ and the Holy Spirit produces a new birth our life is now lived above where Christ is which is a very weird concept. Many times I think of living life here on earth barely getting by as a fragile vessel trying to follow the teachings of Jesus and I have this whisper of conviction inside me about what is right and what is wrong but I get a different picture of my life when I look at this.
That may all be true but the image I get in my head from this passage is that of my life is already above with Christ and seated with him and that is the real life I will live for eternity. I have died to this world and the world’s interest has died in me. The world has vomited me out just like it vomited out Christ because it could not accept Him. It may look like I’m barely getting by but I am really reigning with Christ. Here, I’m in a place in Europe where three faiths converge. Islam, Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholicism and all three of them are spiritually dead and lost. This area needs people who have been baptized into Christ’s death to reach these dead people who don’t seem to know it.
