Trying to save our before-Jesus life is a lost cause because that life is the source of all problems between us and God and that life needs to die so that the new life that Jesus wants to give to us can be planted in our soul, take root and grow. Thankfully, Jesus is our perfect representative who died and rose again for us. In response to what Jesus has done for us, we embrace the new identity he has given us. (Based on Colossians 3:1-17.)
