Is it about life or is it about death?

Is the Christian walk about life or is it about death? Well I must very confidently say Yes! Last week as I prepared to speak to the college class I thought I was going to talk about death: dying to self, putting to death the flesh, and the like. The more I studied I found a lot less about this topic than I thought. As I read Romans, Philippians, Hebrews, Ephesians, Ezekiel I found more about living with Christ, walking in the Spirit, and sanctification. Previously, somewhere subconsciously my focus was to not sin, enabling me to walk closer to Christ; that sounds good right? The problem is that it puts the focus on me and what I'm doing and how I can better my walk with Christ. A very me focused gospel.
Ezekiel 36 sums up how my walk with Christ works. After 35 chapters of describing Isreal (us) as the whore of the nations, he says that for His glory He is going to wash us clean, put a new heart in us and make us desire Him, after which we will walk in His ways and obey Him and love Him and it will pain us to think of what we were and we will not want to sin against Him. None of this is because we are of any worth, but because He wants to glorify Himself through us! WOW.
Romans 6 and 8 flesh it out a little bit more saying that Christ has died for our sins, we were buried with Him and now we are dead to sin, we are Sons of God and alive in Christ Jesus! Paul says that if we are walking in the Spirit, we will put to death the deeds the flesh. Basically, I had it switched. My focus doesn't need to be putting the flesh to death, that's a very close secondary. My focus rather should be on living in and for Christ! The dying part has been done, my focus needs to be on LIVING for the one who did the dying for me and on walking in the Spirit. He enables me and gives me the desire to do so and as I walk in Him, I will naturally put to death the flesh. We call this sanctification, becoming more like Christ.
Why are we sanctified though? That's another huge can of theology for another day, but basically so that we can continue to spread the message of Jesus Christ. Our Sanctification is not about us, but rather like God said in Ezekiel: that it was for His honor and namesake.

So, its about death-the death of Christ! Then after washes us puts a new heart in us it is about life-life in and for Christ!

The death He died he died to sin once for all; but the life He lives He lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer your body to him as an instrument of righteousness. Sin shall not be your master for you are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6:10-14