The way, the Truth, and the Life

In the past, I used to agonize over inevitable death, without remedy.

Now I enjoy abundant life, without end. The former life was in the past. This is for the present, for the future, and for eternity. Therefore, my soul exclaims, “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Corinthians 15:55).

And it adds, “O sin, where is your power? I was called to liberty and life; now I am in liberty and life.”

The days in which doubts consumed me, fears tormented me, and hatreds poisoned me — all these have passed.

I am the same as before, but everything in me has changed. Or, better said, I have changed the path that I follow. In the past, I followed the thorny, intricate, torturous mazes in which sin led me. Now I follow the Way of the Truth and the Life. Now I follow Christ, the Lord.