To live is Christ is to live honestly before God in both praise and lament, boast and complaint, for the Christ in us knows how to turn our defeat into his victory.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
To live is Christ is to live honestly before God in both praise and lament, boast and complaint, for the Christ in us knows how to turn our defeat into his victory.
To live is Christ is to boast continually in the victory of Christ. His ancient victory. His present victory. His victory yet to come.
To live is Christ is to live in the confident hope of our assured salvation even when nothing has actually changed in our situation.
To live is Christ is preaching this sermon to our own hearts – Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
To live is Christ takes us by faith into the wilderness of the soul where our desires are splayed out beside the dried up river beds of this existence. And it is there that hope in God through Christ will quench our every thirst once again.
To live is Christ means his future is ours. His triumph is ours. His blessing is ours. His eternity is ours. Ours to share from everlasting to everlasting. And when we trust completely in this shared future with Christ we can then turn repayment of our betrayers over to him alone, knowing that his vengeance over our enemies allows for our forgiveness of the same.