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Today is Independence Day in the United States, and as a citizen of my country I think about the significance of this celebration to me. But what this leads me to is a deeper consideration of the day when I announced my personal independence from all but Jesus Christ... seeking to become a citizen of God’s heavenly realm... a Christian.
By the spiritual death of our old selves in Christ we are made to rise again, and to embrace eternal life. This is a cycle of life, death, and rebirth which is repeated many times over throughout God’s creation, and this is the template we were born to follow. We die as one person to sin, but by our death, and subsequent rebirth, we are raised a new creation, and give rise to many others who will follow us and be born in the image of God, and reborn into the perfection of His righteousness... just as we have been.