PoS Scriptures Part 1

As part of re-doing my Personal Progress and more specifically my first Value Experience I need to read some scriptures relating to the Plan of Salvation, and discuss them with "my class" (being you, the reader, and my FSIL)
The first scripture I was to read is found in 1st Corinthians 15:22

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

So what do I take away from this? What does it mean?

Let's break it up a bit, the start "For as in Adam all die". Adam is from Adam and Eve, and when they partook of the forbidden fruit they opened mankind up to a physical death. Hence "all die" because it is enevitable that we all will.

"in Christ shall all be made alive"

We hear it alot, Christ died so that we might live. And he did. He experienced everything that we ever will and more, he took upon him all of our sorrow, our pain, sins, mistakes, wrongdoings etc all so we can have the oppurunity to live with our Father in Heaven forever. Through his Atonement, and our earnest repentance we can live with God again. hence "made alive"

But "in Christ shall all be made alive" can also be looked at in a different way. In a literal way, have you ever heard someone say "I feel so alive!"? It's a feeling of freedom, energy, power, control, joy, peace, excitement, invincability... nothing can stop them... nothing can tempt them, nothing take take hold because they are so full of life! Christ can give us that through the Gospel. his teachings bring as all of those things, they show us how to live them all each day to have them continually in our lives, so we are better able to fight off the temptations of Satan and hold fast to the truth. 
Iam also asked to apply the scriptures I am reading to three questions:

1. How does knowing this affect my actions?

2. How does knowing this affect my understanding of my identity?

3. How has knowing this strengthened my faith?

I'll start with 1. Knowing this has helped me choose because I know that repentance is a real process, it has real results nad I either choose to repent or I procrastinate it. And choosing the right things and acting on them brings me to a greater sense of feeling alive, and as I want to feel good all the time, I'm more inclined to choose the right to achieve these feelings.

2.  Identity... Who am I? Well, the Primary answer is "I am a Child of God." But more specifically, If christ has endured everythign I have/will endure than I have been thought of personally. As an Individual. My thoughts, my emotions, my reactions, my pain, my happiness, my passions, my desires, my fears, my worries, my concerns... everything. I am only a speck of sand but a speck that is loved nad has been taken into account over and over again. I'm loved. Beyond anything I will ever be able to comprehend and because I'm loved Christ went through all the pain possible for me, and God allowed it so I can be with Him again... because he loves me. 
3. This has strengthened my faith because it reaffirms everything I "know" already, but with feeling. I am understanding it better as I grow older and because of that I am more firm in my belief of it. My faith is stronger because I want ti to be, I'm letting it, I'm acting on it to be stronger. As they say... Knowledge is Power.