Are You Willing?

“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.”

Romans 6:5

Are you dead?

Seems like a question most of us can answer without thinking.

But let’s not do that!

Let me rephrase it in a way that should cause us to pause and truly consider before answering.

Have you truly died to sin?

We are called to be dead to sin but alive to Christ.

But do we spend more time with the ‘old man’ so to speak than we do with Christ?

It matters.

It makes a difference.

If we continue in our sin and do not reflect Christ, we are probably hanging out more with the old man than we are with the Lord.

Yes, it is a work of Gods’ hands through His Son that we are saved and become the New Creation in Christ but the on-going work of sanctification is a work accomplished through cooperation with the Holy Spirit.

That cooperation, in a very real sense, begins and ends with our desire, our willingness to be like Him.

Do we desire to be like Him more than we desire the pleasures of sin?

If our answer is less than convincing even to ourselves, “are you willing,” as Corrie Ten Boom once said, “to be made willing?”

In other words, even when you recognize your weakness and inability to do it alone are you willing to partner with the Spirit of God to see your desires changed?