New Status

A NEW STATUS

You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins
(Colossians 2:13 NLT)

It is no longer news that the world is now one large community. With the increase in social media platforms, human beings can interact real time with each other across continents. What really makes this platform interesting is the fact that one can share their thoughts and feelings publicly for all to view by simply updating one’s status. Your status at that particular time tells us what's going on in your mind.

Spiritually, you and I have a status. The scripture above states that we were at some point dead because of the sinful nature that was passed on from Adam and only through Christ did we have access to life. Unlike the status update one can have on social platforms, man can only have one of two statuses. Either dead or alive. It is unfortunate that your status slot cannot be kept blank. You either update consciously or it is updated for you in Adam.

As long as man continues to live in denial of what Christ achieved for us on the cross, he continues with a ‘dead status’ and this entails enmity with God. Adam disobeyed and immediately his status was updated and God could no longer have fellowship with him. The very first thing that salvation offers us is an automatic change of status. That is, we pass on from death to life. The old dead man is done away with and you become a new creature that is completely righteous and ready for a fulfilling relationship with God. How beautiful! Every morning you see people in a hurry rushing to different destinations; school, work, etc but in the spirit every person is treading on either path, life or death. Think of that.

Salvation changes your status and makes you worthy to offer acceptable sacrifice to God. This you wouldn't do in your old status. With this new status you can approach God confidently without fear of being slain as it where in the old covenant. The life of Christ has made you alive and it is only the living that can hear and see what God is saying. Thus, the fact that you have had a change of status, I beseech you to live for Him that made you alive and worthy of fellowship with God. Let your daily lives be surrendered to Him.