In Ephesians 2:1-10, Paul talks about being "alive" and being "dead." Too often, we speak of life and death in differing terms. We are inclined to think of "living" as taking breaths, watching sunrises, or enjoying a basketball game. "Death" is associated with being placed in a box and buried in the ground.
For Paul, life and death are distinguished by whether we are in sin, or free from our sin. He writes, "And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked."
To live is to be at one with God; death is the condition of those who live to themselves, who are "following the course of this world."
I enjoy taking breaths, watching sunrises, and do enjoy basketball games. But I am alive when I am united with God and seeking to do God's will. It is in following Jesus that life is expanded beyond my own little box with its own little concerns.
Move into the life which God offers.
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