This sharing of a death like His is like what he gave up on this earth. He gave up His glorious position and became like a slave. He gave up the desire to have a good reputation, He became nothing and gave up His will in the garden. We may think that we do the will of God, but remember His ways are higher, His thoughts are higher. We cannot even think or know His ways unless He reveal them by His Spirit to our spirit. This death is just like His and there will be new life in that death. This death is much easier for some than others. For me I had a strong will and mind. God will use your circumstances to break these things in you. It is not always the enemy or God has given him permission to give you a work out. Just as a seed goes into the ground and dies, we must also die to our will, our way, ourselves in order to be used by God, powerfully. Our new life is hidden with Christ, in God! When we come into this oneness with God, The Creator of all the universe, He will give us His mind and heart to do His highest will. Romans 6:1-8 Amplified Bible (AMP) 6 What shall we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God’s grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow? 2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? 3 Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. 5 For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God]. 6 We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. 7 For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men]. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
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