Burying Bernie

“For we know that our old self was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin – because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.” Romans 6:6-7

The movie Weekend at Bernie’s has been one of the most long-running films to be viewed and enjoyed by many. The thought of dragging around death for the sake of obtaining something on the surface is very entertaining in script, but the death we drag around daily is not so funny.

Christ died on the cross so we could choose a better way – a way that frees us from the ball-and-chain of sin. But much like the movie, we choose to be drawn in to our sin in an effort to gain something we feel cannot be obtained otherwise. We display our will instead in God’s although our will sits lifeless like Bernie and displays no expression of faith. We manipulate our circumstances by using sinful habitual patterns of our lives which we default to obtain our own desire.

The good news is that the more we pursue Christ and realize that He is victorious over death of all kind we can finally lay to rest the sin that enslaves us. Teacher and author Anabel Gillham writes: ‘The patterns in your life become so deeply entrenched that you perform them habitually – not even recognizing that you are exhibiting un-Christlike behavior…or that you have a choice to resist.’

Let’s decide that today is the day to ‘bury Bernie.’