death and life
This weekend makes me mindful of death and life.
I can’t help but think of all the ways I need to die to myself.
I’m stuck on how much I need to decrease so that He can increase. I keep thinking about the things I need to let die in my heart and in my thinking. There are so many things Jesus died to free me from that I unnecessarily take back onto myself. I need to leave those at the cross once and for all.
I also can’t help but think of how badly I need His resurrection power to have its way in me.
I need to allow His truth to come alive inside me. I can’t fully live until I embrace who He says I am. I need the fruit of His Spirit, the depth of His character, and the passion of His purpose to awaken inside me like a radiant new dawn. I am desperate for the newness of His living water to spring up in me. And to spring out of me.
Death.
Life.
I’m embracing both this weekend.
Just as He did.
Love this!
I pray that this Easter is an amazing time of renewal and refreshment for you Alece!
@pa3cia says:
as you embrace death and life….i pray that He wraps you in His embrace and keeps you safe in His arms.
@chrystieecole says:
I love this and I love you, my friend!
@mandythompson says:
Beautiful words my friend. And a challenge for all of us…
Love you and miss you and hope you have a resurrecting Easter this weekend. Hoping that for you.
xxoo
I love this time of year…Easter weekend. What hope we have in Jesus. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
@cassgirl says:
May His resurrection remind you that He isn’t finished with you yet!!!
((embracing you with gigantic hugs))
Love you FF!!
Except a kernel of wheat die…
@gritandglory says:
exactly!
@PrudyChick says:
His shameful death took away the shame of my life.
My sinful life sent His perfect life to death.
Doesn’t necessarily seem like an even exchange, but He felt I (mankind) was worth it.
There are many of your posts where the words are so beautifully written and then I get to the end and am smacked with a bold realization or truth and all I can ever say is…. DANG… and breath deep.
@christielici0us says:
“I also can’t help but think of how badly I need His resurrection power to have its way in me.”
I hear you.
I hope it does, for both of us.
Happy Easter, Alece!
Happy Easter friend!
Great word today, Alece.
Blessings over you this Easter, as you embrace death and life. I’ve been there the last few weeks…painful, but good. So good.
Have a very joyous Easter Alece.
Love this post. My prayer all year has been “more of you Lord and less of me.”
Happy Easter my new friend.
I’ve been praying the Vespers (evening) prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours during Lent, and one line in the Holy Week prayers keeps going around in my head and heart: “Redeemer, give us a greater share of your passion through a deeper spirit of repentance, that we may share the glory of your resurrection.”
Wow, greater joy and greater passion not through striving or trying harder or pumping myself up, but through deeper repentance. That’s been challenging me.
@traceepersiko says:
me too SF. I need me some Friday and Sunday. I am ready for the death in me. I am ready to be rid of myself. Feel so grateful this Easter.
hugs friend…thinking of our Savior’s love today… that Love that gets us through the death and carries us to new life… sigh…love u
well said.
“I can’t fully live till I embrace who He says I am.” didn’t He say he came so we could live life abundantly?
I will be thinking these words over this weekend. Jesus died to save me from my sins, He washed me white as snow then why am I still living everyday with a touch of shame? That’s certainly not living life fully as who He says I am.
Oh God help me…
@gritandglory says:
“still living everyday with a touch of shame…” i’m right there with, friend.
so badly want to walk in the freedom He died to give me…
@JewelzSightings says:
For the first time that I can remember in my life I have a different picture of Easter and what it means. I’ve written about it on my blog. I’d love to share it with you.
http://jewelsightings.blogspot.com/2010/04/he-lives-in-me.html
He lives in you…. it’s all so amazing!
@hannahruthie says:
“I keep thinking about the things I need to let die in my heart and in my thinking.”
Yikes! you just had to go there, didn’t you? Thinking??
That’s a really difficult one to let my heart accept. Even my thoughts are not hidden from God. He wants those too. Even my thoughts are included in the “everything” that I am supposed to give to Him.
Thanks for this reminder.