Out of the Grave and Into Life

The covers are off, the day has begun — I rise with Christ.

Devotional Credit: Days of Heaven on Earth by A.B. Simpson
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Romans 6:11 calls us to a radical accounting — to consider ourselves not merely trying to resist sin, but to count ourselves already dead to it and fully alive to God in Christ. This is not an invitation to perform or repress ourselves into a better version of Christian living; it's a call to walk in resurrection life — His life.

A.B. Simpson contrasts the suffocating weight of continual self-crucifixion with the joy of living by the risen Christ. He illustrates this with a story where two preachers offered back-to-back messages: the first, on the risen life, lifted hearts heavenward; the second, focused again on dying to self, brought the room back into somber heaviness. One message released, the other buried.

Simpson’s gentle warning is this: don’t return to the tomb once Christ has called you out. Resurrection life is not a future event only — it is your present inheritance. Jesus holds the keys. Leave the grave behind, and trust Him to live His victorious life through you today.

Personalized Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit

Beloved, you are not meant to linger near the tomb. I brought you out through the cross, and I raised you with My Son. You are not who you once were. The old self was crucified with Him so that sin’s dominion would lose its power over you. You are alive — not just with breath, but with My life in you.

There is no need to keep mourning what died. You are not called to a cycle of death, but to a life of resurrection. I have written your story in Christ — not a pattern of repression, but of release. Where once you labored to suppress sin, now I live in you to overcome it.

Let My life flow freely. Reckon yourself dead to sin because you are. Reckon yourself alive to Me because you are. Don’t clutch the keys to the tomb — give them back to the One who conquered death and now reigns in glory. Walk forward, radiant with His life.

Scriptures: Romans 6:6–11; Galatians 2:20; Revelation 1:18; Colossians 3:1–4

Real-Life Analogy

It’s like setting an alarm in the morning — only to wake up and keep lying there, eyes open, heart beating, but unmoving. Why stay under the covers when the sun is up and the day has begun? You’ve already been awakened — now rise and live.

Prayer of Confidence

Father, I rejoice that I’ve been raised with Christ. I count myself dead to the old way — to striving, suppressing, and mourning — and alive to You. I trust the risen life of Jesus to express itself through me today, not by my trying, but by Your indwelling power. The tomb is behind me. Christ is before me. And Your Spirit is within me.