You're in swaddling cloths too!

Aside from wrapping babies, swaddling clothes were used to prepare dead bodies for burial. Jesus was born and wrapped in dead mans cloths as a sign of his call to die. When we are born again we become wrapped in dead cloths, and we are called to die daily! The dead cloths are this flesh, (Body of Sin). Romans 6:6

Consider this reality: You are walking around today DEAD ON THE OUTER MAN but ALIVE ON THE INNER MAN. The outer man (the flesh) is the life of sin; the inner man (the spirit) is the Life of Christ. The more you die to the flesh, the more alive you become to the spirit! Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and so are we!

The swaddling cloths will become old and slowly waist away!

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. - 2Corinthians 4:16

Your flesh should be in constant state of decline and decay. Decay means to decline in quality gradually and steadily, or cause something to undergo such a decline, to decrease gradually in magnitude, the fading away of a musical note

The power of sin, lust for sin, desire for sin and all that is of the flesh, is in constant decay within the life of the believer. We are wrapped in swaddling clothes, like Christ. This speaks of our daily dieing and rising with Christ. The Christmas story is not about a baby lying in a manger any longer. It is about a savior God, who bids man to come and die with Him. God is not asking for a blood sacrifice any longer, he is looking for men and women who will be living sacrifices. Those who will die daily with Him. If we say with Paul “I die daily” 1 Corinthians 15:31, we will know what it is to be risen daily into new life.