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Scripture: Romans 6:7-8: For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. Abridged: God is calling us to change our physical lives while we are still on this earth so that our spiritual lives can experience unconditional love, accomplish what God can achieve through us, and experience beauty as oneness with the Creator of the universe. Meditation: God invites us to attend our funeral every day � sometimes many times a day. God repeatedly brings us to our tombstone and asks us to engrave an epitaph of our physical self that has enslaved our spiritual self for so long. Perhaps we would write something like, �Here lays willful self-determination that sought to satisfy itself by its power,� or �Rest in peace brilliant mind of humanity that competed with itself and struggles no more.� Not surprisingly, most of us hold off our death as long as possible. We are so accustomed to our physical life with its sensory pleasures that we come to accept as truth that beauty requires pain, accomplishment involves struggle, and love requires sacrifice. God is calling us to change our physical lives while we are still on this earth so that our spiritual lives can experience unconditional love, accomplishment as that which God achieves through us, and beauty as oneness with the Creator of the universe. Yet, we often cling to our physical being at the expense of receiving our entire life in the Holy Spirit that would liberate our spiritual body and make us fully alive. Resurrection and new life always require death. Prayer: Lord, help us to be productive in our work today. With your love shining through us, Blessed Lord, help us learn how to follow you. Amen Enter password: .