Dying to Live!

           There are many different beliefs on how to get to God and many different ways to get to Jesus, but Jesus is God and the only way to get to Jesus is through the cross.  So if you want to find God then go to the cross…but don’t just stand there!  Go to the cross and look up until you see Him…and when He invites you up onto that cross…and you say, “Yes,” you must understand that you will never be the same.  If what you are looking for is a better version of the same, Jesus does not have what you desire.  If you do still choose to climb up onto that cross, however, God forbid you stay there!  For a time yes, but midnight beggar the dawn brings resurrection!  To climb upon the cross and die with Him means that death cannot hold you anymore than it could hold Him!  So resurrect beloved, resurrect!  

*Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.– John 14:6

*Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.  For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.  For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.  Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.- Romans 6:4-11