#madealive

reflection “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.” - 1 Peter 3:18

The change from being unrighteous to righteous was not attained for free. Our freedom was not for free. When we live our lives, slaves to sin, we are all unrighteous and deserving of the wrath of God. We deserve condemnation, and we deserve to have the wrath of God poured for us because of all the filthiness of our sins. Most of the time, we tend to deny and act so righteous by covering our skeletons with our so-called good works. However, we have to understand that we are never righteous. We are dirty, we are sinful, and we deserve to be condemned. 

Our verse today reminds us that we are indeed sinful. It reminds us that only through Christ, we are saved. The salvation that we have now only belongs to Christ, and it is because He became the substitute. Instead of us dying on that cross, instead of us receiving the wrath of God, Christ received it all and suffered in our stead so that we will be spared from this suffering. We are unrighteous, and the righteous One was made to suffer so that we will be brought to God. Christ was put to death in the body but He was made alive in the Spirit. 

So, as we live our lives knowing this truth we must understand that our salvation completely belongs to Christ. It does not belong to us, nor can we have the power to give ourselves our own redemption and salvation. Just think about it, the treasure of heaven who is Jesus Christ-- our Lord and the Word, sacrificed His life for us so that we will be able to live our lives free from sin and death. Thus, we must start understanding that it's time for us to offer our lives to God and ask Him to guide us as we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior. 

Therefore, we must always remember that Christ died for us. He sacrificed the comforts of heaven to suffer and die here in our cruel world to save our sinful selves. We are very ungrateful that we even curse Him, and reject Him, but we must remember that as we receive Him as our Lord and Savior, we are also made alive. Thus, we must understand that everything we need is in Christ and that He is our salvation, not our own selves.

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Indeed. He made us new through Jesus Christ.

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We are all born slaves of sin and death and in enmity with God. How ironic is it that just as soon as we are born, we are already subjected to death and slaves of sin? It is a truth that we can never accept because it is such a different and difficult concept to understand. However, even if we cannot accept this, it is the truth. We are in enmity with God for all of our trespasses and with that, we are subject to eternal condemnation. 

Now, because of the repetition of this reminder, we get so familiar with the message of the Gospel that we are developing a lax attitude towards it. We think that we already know about this and that we already know the formula to have eternal life. However, because of the pride that was developed by our familiarity, we have lost sight of the true message of the Gospel. 

Most of the time we just think that as long as we know the formula or the way to our salvation, we are good. So, we must remember that knowing the way is very different from believing that it is the way. Thus, we must understand that knowledge is not enough but we have to believe and claim that we are saved through Jesus Christ because of grace. Also, our verse reminds us that we are made alive in Christ. We are dead in transgressions. Without knowing, we are already in the grave, we are dead because of our transgressions. 

However, God made us alive in Christ. This also connects to the truth that Christ indeed rose from the dead and He will bring us together with Him. It is His grace that we will rise from our death of sin, and as we rise, we will not be dead in transgressions but alive with the new life of Christ. Therefore, we must always remember that we are under God’s grace and that through it we are saved and made alive. 

Although we are dead in sin, we are now alive in Christ. Indeed our old self died with Him, and now we are living a life given by Christ. It is a life that only wants to obey Christ and to follow Him. Paul wanted to remind his readers who are already Christians to be reminded that we must not be lax and be familiar with the salvation message, but we must be wise and always depend on God. Again, we are made alive in Christ and through Him, we will rise again, death can never hold us anymore. All of this is all because of His grace, through faith.

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