Today we're going to take on a posture of peace by considering all the implications of what it
means for you and I to be one with the Prince of Peace himself. Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.
Posture is a podcast that serves a short audible fist bump to remind you that God is in everything.
Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 through 3 says this,
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things that are above,
not on the things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
At the time that this episode is released, we will all have just finished celebrating
Holy Week together as a global church where we celebrated the amazing, powerful, miraculous,
life-changing, earth-shaking resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Together we have all focused our attention on the death and resurrection of Jesus.
And so today, the day after Easter Sunday, I want to ask you a question.
Did you also focus on your death and resurrection too?
Because you also died and a new you was raised with Christ.
You know, if we only focus on the fact that Christ died and was raised again without
considering all the implications of what that means for our lives now, we'll have missed the point.
Romans 6 11 says, consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
You know, this is not a basic message or a milk message or a beginner's message for anyone who's
just been saved. No, your identity in Christ is the message of your life. None of us will
ever move beyond it. We will mature and we will grow. And so will our understanding of our identity
in Christ. We will gain a deeper revelation. But I guarantee you 60 years from now, I will still
be focusing on this amazing truth. I'm dead to sin and alive to Christ. Otherwise,
I'm going to be tempted to spend my whole life just trying to prop up my old dead self and waste
so much time trying to fix myself instead of embracing the new me who has been made one
with Christ. Think about the implications of you being one with the Prince of Peace himself.
Like, what does that mean for you today? What does that mean for you in the midst of this pandemic?
So this week as a posture community, we're going to focus on the new us, what it means to be dead
to sin and alive in Christ, because now is the perfect time to learn your identity in Christ as
a reality, not a concept. You know, when God looks at you, he sees Jesus. The question I want us to ask
ourselves today is, do we actually believe what God believes about us? He's not double-minded
about what took place on the cross. He's not moving between our old self and our new self. He is
totally focused on the new us, and so should we. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah
26 3, and in Hebrew it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.
This is who you are in Jesus. Let's declare this together. Today I am kept in perfect peace
with my whole heart. I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole. Remember, friend, you
are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win, not because of anything you did, but because of what
he did for you. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and
Satan's defeat on replay.