It is not Death to Die

This may sound like a strange question, but do you think regularly about your death? I'd argue it's a good thing to regularly think about your death, and as you do so it's helpful to think about why Christ died. Christ's death puts the death of a Christian into right perspective. Let's think, together with John Owen, about why Christ died...


"Why did Christ die? He died because the law demanded the death of a sinner, and Christ was the surety for sinners. How, then, are we delivered from death? We are delivered from death as punishment. We must still die, but now death is the last battle with the effects of sin, and it is the way to the Father's personal presence." Communion with God, pg. 122

Death for a Christian isn't punishment. Christ already took about that punishment on the cross - he died the death of a sinner that the law demanded. Death for a Christian is life (Phil 1:21-22). We still must die, but our death is nothing more than an ushering into the presence of Almighty God. It is not death to die. It's life.