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This morning I read a verse 
that always seems a little... 
cryptic.... 
or 
....strange....? 

Hmm.. 
2Cor 4:10 We always carry around 
in our body  
the death of Jesus, 
so that the life of Jesus  
may also be revealed in our body. 

Whaaat?

Context. Context.... 

Paul is talking about me being 
like a clay pot 
fragile 
cracked 
but filled with treasure.... 
filled with something
that keeps me from being
crushed, despairing, abandoned, or destroyed ref 2Cor 4:7-9

In that context he says
I carry around Jesus' DEATH
in my body...

and this is treasure?....

Hmm...
Sooo....
The crucifixion of Jesus
is also my crucifixion - WITH him
Death to my old self
my Adam nature....
so that
everything I do now
is by His life.
Not by my old nature. ref Rom 6:1-11

There is a scripture in
Rom 8:10 But if Christ is in you,
your body is dead because of sin,
yet your spirit is alive
because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him
who raised Jesus from the dead
is living in you,
he who raised Christ from the dead
will also give life
to your mortal bodies
through his Spirit,
who lives in you.

So the treasure is....
death of me
and life from Him?....
Hmmm.

No wonder to those who are being
saved I am the smell of life
but to those who haven't 'died' with Jesus yet
I am the smell of Death!....
Their death!.... RUN AWAY!.....
wow. ref 2Cor 2:14-16

Soo...
True Treasure that overcomes death
LIFE...
....is packaged in the paradox of death to get there.... ref John 12:24
Hmm...
Amazing.

This Treasure means I have
NOTHING ON THIS EARTH TO LOSE.
No wonder when the tough times come
I am not destroyed.....

Ga 2:20 I have been crucified
with Christ
and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body,
I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me
and gave himself for me.

Wow.

Lord,
The spiritual and the material
mixing....
Living.
Dying.
and
You are the author
and creator
and designer
of both....
...You save me by Your death
AND
Your life.

So amazing.

Thank You for the
Complete work that You
did.
and
are doing...
In Me
Today.....

Yeah.

PJ