Redeemed from "The Good Life"

I've been reading Jesus in the Margins, by Rick McKinley.   In it, he writes, When we step back and recognize that we have defined "the good life" as something we can obtain by ourselves for ourselves, we begin to see the absurdity of redemption.  Jesus came to redeem us from something we don't think is a problem.  Why should he die on the cross for me?  I'm living the good life.  I found this really convicting as I read these words from Ephesians 2:1-2; 4-6,  You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world...But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. (NRSV).  It's really difficult to imagine what life in Christ is like when we don't recognize our need to be redeemed from what we imagine is "the good life."  Poor people need redemption, broken people need redemption, but not us.  The problem is we don't see that the "good life" is broken.  It will never bring fulfillment because it's simply we that are living.  Paul writes, we were really "dead" in this way of life we lived.  But God, by grace, made us alive together with Christ.  Life is only found "together with Christ" or "in Christ."  As we reflect on the cross approaching and the resurrection, let's consider what Christ died to redeem us from and let us reimagine what life together with Him can look like.