Dying and Rising With Christ

2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF
DYING AND RISING WITH CHRIST
Colossians 2: 20- 3: 4

‘I’ll just be two minutes,’ I said, leaving my friends on the street corner while I went to fetch the car. It was raining, and we’d just come out of the theatre.

But I wasn’t two minutes. I took more like ten. They were starting to worry that I’d had an accident. I hadn’t. I had driven out of the car park and tried to turn into the street where they were waiting for me. But I wasn’t allowed to turn that way. There was a one-way system. I was forced to set off in exactly the opposite direction and to go a long, long way round through narrow, twisting and winding streets before I could find my way back. What looks like the shortest way is often impossible. Sometimes the correct way is what seems the hardest...