Wednesday, May 22

We who believe have died

Thus knowledge of Christ’s death for us as our sin-bearing substitute requires us to see ourselves as dead, risen, and alive forevermore in him. We who believe have died — painlessly and invisibly, we might say — in solidarity with him because he died, painfully and publicly, in substitution for us.

— J. I. Packer
In My Place Condemned He Stood
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2008), 86