Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. -How have our old selves been crucified with Christ? Legally, God looks at us as if we had died with Christ. Because our sins died with him, we are no longer condemned (Colossians 2:13-15). Relationally, we have become one with Christ, and his experiences are ours. Our Christian life began when, in unity with him, we died to our old life (see Romans 6:5-11). In our daily life, we must regularly crucify sinful desires that keep us from following Christ. This too is a kind of dying with him (Luke 9:23-25). And yet the focus of Christianity is not dying, but Living. Because we have been crucified with Christ, we have also been raised with him (Romans 6:5). Legally, we have been reconciled with God (2 Corinthians 5:19) and are free to grow into Christs likeness (Romans 8:29). And in our daily life, we have Christs resurrection power as we continue to fight sin (Ephesians 1:19, 20). We are no longer alone, for Christ lives in us--he is our power for living and our hope for the future (Colossians 1:27).
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:06:54 +0000
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