are you DEAD?

strange title I know.  a group of us were meditating on Romans 6 and Paul tells us there that we are dead to sin (v. 2) and that we died "with Christ" (v. 6).  I think that many of the problems that I have relate directly to me not living out of the reality of what Paul is teaching.  If I am dead to sin and alive to God, manifesting the life of Christ, then most of the struggles simply evaporate.  Simple.  If only I BELIEVED it more often!