Daily Devotional

January 21st 2026

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WEDNESDAY

If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one Man, Jesus Christ, provides?—Romans 5:17 (MSG)

Life is love, joy, excitement, vitality, enrichment, and power. Life is fulfillment in every direction, in every possibility of our being. Death is the absence of life. Death is emptiness, loneliness, misery, depression, boredom and restlessness. Based on this description, we should ask, “How much of our lives are made up of death?” Some people never seem to have anything but death in their lives.
But Paul says here that Christ’s death provides abundant grace and loving acceptance, which are available repeatedly—again and again and again—such that all who are in Christ can reign in life now. We have life amid all the pressures and circumstances and suffering and troubles. Our spirits can be alive and joyful—experiencing fulfillment and delight. This is life in the midst of death! We reign in life now. Love, joy, peace, glory, and gladness fill our hearts even during all the heartaches and pressures of life.
Paul draws this parallel so that we might see that what we lost in Adam, we regain in Jesus, plus so much more. Adam ruins us all. Only Christ sets us free. Sin and death do not loose their hold on us, except at the command of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the One to whom we look is the Lord Jesus, the one who broke the terrible death grip on us and set us free.
Jesus is Lord. The One who broke through death and sin has come to live within us, to give Himself to us, and to infuse us with His strength and purity, His wisdom and power. All that He is, is available to us. Thus, we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
As we daily navigate through death, we can live full, eternal lives in Christ, Jesus. This is the inheritance He has provided for us.

Prayer: Lord, by Your Holy Spirit, we rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ, because He has broken the shackles of evil and death and sin that held us, and He has set our spirits free and has given to us the opportunity to draw from Him the grace and mercy we need every day. In the infancy of this new year, we claim life in the midst of death; we cling to Jesus, who makes abundant life possible. In His name, we pray. AMEN!

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