No, being God’s adopted sons and daughters doesn’t make life any less difficult. Yes, we will suffer with Christ as Paul says in Romans 8. But we don’t fall back into fear. We move forward as sons.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 347. DECEMBER 13: OUGHT TO LOVE.
“To live is Christ” is to know you are loved by Love. And then it is to love. To love one another freely and fully as those in whom God’s love is being perfected IN US as we learn more and more each day to trust his love FOR US.
An Ancestral Advent Day 12: The Son of Jesse.
I can honestly say that truth of a future peace in the presence of the Branch is what gets me through every day, not just the holidays, and especially the dark days. What about you?
TLIC DAILY. DAY 346. DECEMBER 12: OUR HEART.
Go live your life boldly before him. Because “to live is Christ.”
An Ancestral Advent Day 11: The Son of Boaz and Ruth.
In a world of darkness, in the long waiting for the salvation of our God, will your love story, the story of your union with Christ, shine his light into that darkness around you?
TLIC DAILY. DAY 345. DECEMBER 11: GOD’S SEED.
If you can see yourself as God’s child, born of God, participating in his own nature, then, you might just find that your doing has begun to match your being. You might just find that your “to live” looks like it “is Christ.”
To Live is Christ 