Wednesday's Word: One With Him

"Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going,
so how can we know the way?

 Jesus said to him (Thomas): "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life;
no one comes to the Father except through Me."
(John 14:5-6)

"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?  

Certainly not!  How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized
into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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 might too habitually live and behave in the newness of life.

For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His,
we shall also be one with Him sharing His resurrection,
by a new life lived for God.

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.

For when a man dies, he is freed, loosed, delivered, from
the power of sin among men.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we
shall also live with Him.

Because we know that Christ, the Anointed One, being
once raised from the dead, will never die again;
death no longer has power over Him.

For by the death He died, He died to sin, ending
His relation to it, once for all; and the life that He lives,
He is living to God in unbroken fellowship with Him.
(Romans 6:1-10)

"The Incredulity of Saint Thomas"
(1601)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
(1571-1610)
Italian painter