Dead With Him

"It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall live with him."  II Timothy 2:11.  All of God's sayings are faithful.  His word is always reliable.  We must die with Christ.  He died so that we might die with Him.  When we are buried in baptism, we die with Christ.  We die to sin.  We die to the world.  We die to self.  After Jesus died, He arose and lives again.  So when we die, we are raised so that we might live with Him.  We live in His forgiveness.  We live in His fellowship.  We live in His perfection.  Christ brought life through death.  One must die so that he might live.  Choosing to die is choosing to live.  Living with Christ now brings life with Christ forever.  Our conception in Jesus Christ is through death.  This death brings a life that never ends.  God's faithful saying is that when we die in Christ, we truly begin to live.  Life now and life eternal.  Those who die with Christ only die once.  When we die with Christ, the grave will be unable to hold us.  Truly this is a faithful saying: death erupts in life.