Can you say that your life is #Christ? LEM Daily #Devotion Series: #Philippians Philippians 1:21 “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Basically Paul is proclaiming here that while he is breathing this air, his life is Christ, and when he breathes his last, that communion will be perfect and far better than he can even imagine now. What does it mean to say that your life “is Christ”? It means that Jesus is your all in all, your all-sufficient One. It means that all that is true of Christ is all that is true for you. As Paul writes in Romans 6:10-11, “For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Truthfully, we need to grow in our understanding of this reality. We do so by actively communing with Christ and depending on Him for everything. We must grow to intimately know Christ (Philippians 3:10), to love Christ with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30), and we must submit all our thoughts, words, actions, and deeds to the lordship of Christ so that we seek only to please Him in all our lives (Colossians 1:10). In other words, the glorious person of Jesus Christ is, and nothing less, the Christian life. This is a process, of course. Every believer has periods in his or her life where there is a struggle to live according to this wonderful reality. Paul writes that he had not attained it either (Philippians 3:12), but like him, we press on toward the goal of Christ because He has made us His. In this, our lives become more and more centered on our Savior. Study/Meditation: What does it mean for you to practically, in your day-to-day life, live a life that is Christ? *Father, help me see the areas of my life where I am struggling to live Christ, and give me the wisdom and discernment to move more in line with my Savior. Amen.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:09:33 +0000
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