Raised from the dead

DEVOTION

COLOSSIANS

RAISED FROM THE DEAD



Col 3:1-4
3:1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
NIV

I have been raised with Christ! Jesus was put to death upon the cross and his dead body placed in the tomb, yet he was raised from the dead to live once again in the physical form, glorified as it were, yet physical enough for Thomas to put his finger in the wounds, and enough for Christ to fix a meal for his friends. Raised from the dead, and I too have been raised from the dead. The Greek word used here is: sunegeiro

NT:4891 sunegeiro (soon-eg-i'-ro); from NT:4862 and NT:1453; to rouse (from death) in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to revivify (spiritually) in resemblance to:

The word so declares, those who have accepted Christ have been, aroused from death, and are now in the company of Christ. This death I have been aroused from is of a suicidal form. I must put to death my old nature, setting my mind on things above, not on earthy things. Verse 5 gives me the list of those earthy natures I am to put to death which is within me. It is in every sense the way of the world, including the sensual, moral, civil and financial systems that are so prevalent in this world. Clearly I am to live in Christ according to a system that is as far different then those of this world. The question that stares at me is what does that look like? I hear and I have even said, live in the world but not of the world. The Word says it. Killing those desires of the world from within me is the only way. Not that I cannot or will not have some of the things of the world, but I cannot allow myself to lust after them, or to function in the same fashion as the world does. I live under a different system completely, which may seem foolish to those people who do not understand how God functions, but in reality, their way is foolishness to God. His way is always the best way. I am glad I have died and been raised in Christ.