Your example of faith in Jesus might just carry someone further along into “to live is Christ.”
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
Your example of faith in Jesus might just carry someone further along into “to live is Christ.”
What will this eternal life look like today in this fallen world? Might it look like unconditional love and mercy for others? Maybe courage in difficult times? Patience in suffering? Burden bearing? The melting away of bitterness and anger? Might it look like “to live is Christ?”
“To live is Christ” means no more being held hostage by our doubts of God’s love. The man Christ Jesus has opened the way to the Father forever.
The growing and progressing Christian knows that life only comes out of death and defeat. Trusting the Spirit to minister the death of the old and the life of the new in us as we choose more and more to trust in “to live is Christ.”
Now, in Christ, God’s first word to us is always grace. And his second word to us is faith. “I love you…so trust me…” “Christ is alive in you…so to live is Christ.”
“To live is Christ” has placed us both into Christ, and therefore into one another. Through this mutual koinonia we can now live out the great exchange of Jesus for each other. Sharing our position of freedom in Christ with those who desperately need his grace.