Recently I am reading for the 2nd time, a book by Elisabeth Elliot called "A Path Through Suffering". 

 

A beautifully written little book, there are 27 chapters, I read 1 chapter every day during my devotion time, takes less than 10 minutes. But that little chapter is very thought provoking. 

 

Especially one chapter talks about death is a way of life. 

 

Look at the trees, all around us. The tree branches produce a layer of separation which causes the leaves to die. This process goes on every year, year after year. 

 

Look at human bodies, the cells die and grow new ones every day, day after day. 

 

It's called growth, it's called life. 

 

When we become christians, God gives us a new life in Christ, in the mean time God calls us to die to our old sinful nature. It's the forces of new life and old sinful nature that are fighting in us every day. 

 

Do you choose to die to self so you live more in Christ? Or you choose to hold on to the old, dead body, and refuse to grow up in Christ? 

 

We, yes we, make this choice every day in many ways, our choice of obedience to God results live/growth in Christ, our refusal to die to our old self results in less of Christ's life in us. 

 

Life and death, live and die, we are to consider and choose wisely.