1 Peter 1:14  Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

We are children of God through Christ and his blood shed for us on the cross. Our new birth in Christ is ours through baptism and our trust in his promise of grace.

Our status as children means that our former dependence on the law no longer applies to us. We are free. And as children of God through Christ, we live in that freedom and the new obedience of faith.

As brothers and sisters in Christ, we remind one another of the cross and the great price Christ paid for us there. By the power of the cross, we daily die to our old Adam (and old Eve) that clings so tightly to our mortal bodies, pressing us to turn back to old desires such as greed and its false illusion of power and success. Our power and success are not measured by such things, nor are we bound by them. We let go of that past ignorance, grasping instead the promising truth of the Gospel even as Christ has grasped us from death into life.

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