+DEV+ Q – Quickened by Christ

Date: September 30, 2009 9:41 PM
Topic: +DEV+ Q – Quickened by Christ

Q – Quickened by Christ

“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins.” (Colossians 2:13)
Scripture Focus: Colossians 1:9-23

“Sudden death” is a very serious complication of a heart attack—when the elaborate electrical system of the heart is disturbed, creating a rapid but ineffective beat. With proper skill and equipment, an emergency medical team can reverse “sudden death,” but only within the first few minutes.

What satisfaction and relief it can bring when someone is thus “quickened”—restored to life again. But our medical intervention only postpones the inevitable for some minutes, hours, or years. Unless we are alive when Christ returns for His own, we all die physically.

Being quickened by God means we are made alive in Christ spiritually from the moment of our new birth. We have spiritual life now—a new capacity to enjoy fellowship with God. We are enabled to know Him, love Him, and choose to serve Him. “Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive [quickened us, KJV] with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions” (Ephesians 2:4-7).

Insight: Make a deliberate choice today to give the Lord the control of your mind, your emotions, and your will.

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