Newness of Life Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. — Romans 6:4 That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is the life it is our privilege to lead; for God never gives us a call without its being a privilege, and He never gives us the privilege to come up higher without stretching out to us His hand to lift us up. Come up higher and higher into the realities and glories of the resurrection life. Shake yourself loose of every incumbrance, turn your back on every defilement, and give yourself over like clay to the hands of the Potter, that He may stamp upon you the fulness of His own resurrection glory. And we, who have had the shadows removed, will reflect the glory of the Lord, as we are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory. This glory comes from the Lord, through the Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 From Devotional for the
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