#newness

She wonders what the atlas of her own self looks like, what hills and valleys the others are inking in their minds. Do they notice the way her hands shake on occasion, entirely without her direction, when the rate at which she’s deluged with new information becomes more than she can bear? Do they mark the times when she laughs as much as the times she sets her jaw and leaves the room to cry? Do they know what it feels like to miss a particular street corner, the smell of a high school, the texture of Afghanistan? She wonders and wonders what they make of her newness; she wonders if they know why she waits to ask.

But on the days when novelty isn’t a feckless din in her ears, when there’s calm she can access, and sweet, slow time, she glimpses their skill at cartography.  She feels the resonance of Nicky’s description of sailing beyond the sight of all land, like a bell has been struck inside her chest. And though Andy remembers the shock of the jungle with its wild, green heat, not desert and rock and dryness and sand, Nile knows that feeling of being far from home like a bile-sharp sensation at the back of her throat.  

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Dead to Sin, Alive to God (2 Corinthians 4:7-18)

1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? 2 let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it? 3 are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized? 4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk. 5 For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, [so] also we shall be of the rising again; 6 this knowing, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin; 7 for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship; 10 for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God; 11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God; 14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

The Wages of Sin (1 Peter 3:14-22)

15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be! 16 have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and — were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up; 18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness. 19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness — to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness — to sanctification,

20 for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness, 21 what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death. 22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit — to sanctification, and the end life age-during; 23 for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 6 | Young's Literal Translation (YLT) Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 2:17; Genesis 4:7; Job 33:27; Psalm 119:133; Proverbs 11:19; Proverbs 14:12; Matthew 4:23; Matthew 6:24; Matthew 11:19; Matthew 28:19; Luke 20:16; John 1:14; John 1:17; John 8:32; John 8:34; John 11:40; Acts 2:24; Acts 2:38; Romans 1:8; Romans 3:5; Romans 3:8; Romans 7:4-5 and 6; Romans 7:23; Romans 8:2; Romans 11:2; Romans 12:1; 1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Corinthians 14:6; 2 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 13:4; Galatians 2:19-20; Philippians 3:10; Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 4:1; Revelation 1:18