Newness of life

Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. – Romans 6.3-4

Our physical baptism is a picture of a much greater event. When we were baptised we were laid under the water and raised back up. The laying back in the water pictures our burial with Christ, but the being raised back up pictures the resurrection from the dead and the raising of a new life in Christ. We are being raised to a new life in Him and so we are called to walk in that new life in Him.

If any man is truly in Christ the old things gave passed way and all things have become new. That doesn’t mean that the day we get saved all of our troubles with sin are over. It means that we are longer in bondage to sin. We are not to walk according to the course of this world. We are not to walk in the old life, but in a newness of life.

How are our lives in comparison to the old pre-Jesus life? Is there any difference? Is our newness of life any different that our ‘oldness’ of life? Do people who meet us know that there is a difference? Do our lives speak to the fact that we are ‘not of this world?’

We are all going to have chances today to walk in that newness of life. Are we going to act and react as ‘new creatures’ or do we insist on living according to the world’s pattern?

How are we going to make a difference?