Dead?
Volume 3, Day 109
Laura Brooks, a 52 year old mother of two, didn’t know it but she was one of 14,000 people in 2011 whose names were incorrectly entered into the government database as dead. She wondered what was wrong when she stopped receiving disability benefits, and her loan and rent payments bounced. She went to the bank to clear up the issue, but the clerk told her that her accounts had been closed because she was dead! Obviously they were mistaken.
The apostle Paul was not mistaken when he said that the Ephesian believers were at one point dead—spiritually dead. They were dead in the sense that they were separated from God, enslaved to sin (Eph. 2:5) and already judged by God’s anger. What a state of hopelessness!
Yet God in His goodness took action to reverse this condition for them and for us. The living God “who gives life to the dead” (Rom. 4:17) showed His rich mercy and great love by sending His Son Jesus to this earth. Through Christ’s death and resurrection we are made alive (Eph. 2:4-5).
When we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we go from death to life. Now we live to rejoice in His goodness!
Author
Marvin Williams
