Born to death, raised to life
I remember the first time I heard the term “incompatible with life”. “I’m so sorry,” the doctor said. “Babies like this often die within the first few months of life, if they survive delivery.”
How can death be so closely intertwined with new life?
It’s horrific.
It’s not how things were meant to be.
When I look at conditions like these, I see the devastating effects of the fall—Adam and Eve’s disobedience in Genesis 3 that ushered sin and death into every part of God’s good creation, even our physical bodies.
Oh, to be born into death.
I was recently lamenting this when I realized: I was born into death, too.
Before I took my first breath, I was already under a death sentence.
Romans 5:12 says, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”
I was born with a condition far worse than Trisomy 9.
Born physically alive, yet spiritually dead in sin.
Given an inheritance of tears, as my friend Jessalyn says.
But God didn’t leave me there. He invites us to life in Him.
Romans 5:17 says, “For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.”
Jesus came to rescue us from the death sentence we were born into.
He conquered sin and death.
He gives a new inheritance to all who believe—born again into His family.
He bore our sin on the cross, making the payment we never could.
And He rose victoriously from the grave–and one day will come again and raise those who have died who are in Christ.
We are born into sin. Our bodies are broken. But Jesus.
Because of His death and resurrection, it won’t always be this way.
Every tear will be wiped away. The broken will be made whole. Those in Christ will be raised with new bodies.
The curse reversed.
Thank you, Lord.
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