The Word of God says that we were immersed through baptism into Christ’s death. Through faith we should open ourselves to the reality of Christ’s death, which overcomes sin and the devil. At the moment of His death, Jesus commits His spirit into the Father’s hands. In Christ’s death there is a great power that overcomes. Then comes the resurrection, the new life. We are to enter into Christ’s death in various life situations. It means seriously seeking God’s will and putting God first in a particular situation. In other words, renouncing our own interest, our own truth, our own experience at the present moment and sincerely accept God’s will, God’s truth. This requires self-denial. And then, by His almighty power, God can perform anew the miracle of resurrection in that situation.

In baptism we have also become partakers of Christ’s resurrection, and we should open ourselves to this truth by faith so that it may work in us. God has given us the gift of resurrection through baptism. He did it Himself. I just accept it by faith, even if I do not understand it. So through baptism we have been given a new life. What new life? It is the life of the risen Christ Himself – the life of God. Jesus gives Himself to us. He is mysteriously present in each of us when we are in a state of grace. The stone needs to be rolled away from the grave of our stony heart or the old self, so that Jesus, or His life within us, may penetrate our whole being, our mind, our will, our feelings, and we may truly say: It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. This is our programme, the programme for every Christian: to allow Jesus to live in us.

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