The good news is that the indwelling life of Christ can move us beyond law keeping into the glory and goodness of God’s unconditional love for us in the advent of Christ into our heart.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
The good news is that the indwelling life of Christ can move us beyond law keeping into the glory and goodness of God’s unconditional love for us in the advent of Christ into our heart.
Have you had this authentic experience of Christ? Are you living in this fellowship with him and with the Father God? Are you living in his love? His grace? Are you thinking, feeling, and choosing like he does? Selflessly? And, just as important, are you living in this fellowship of Christ with others?
What is guiding your heart this Christmas season? Is it your union with Christ and his presence that brings you hope, and peace, and joy? Have you checked your happiness meter lately?
“To live is Christ” means never, ever, ever, decreasing in our need for grace. Why? Because Christ in us is constantly revealing more and more of the dark crevices of our souls, bringing us to a place of wretchedness (Rom. 7:24), and revealing the most dangerous sin of the human heart – self-righteousness.
Jesus, the connector of heaven and earth, has come to us and connected our lives to his own. Now like the angels, we are ascending and descending on the ladder of Christ.
When you believe that you have freely and graciously been given everything you need for life and godliness by your Savior King you will, quite naturally, be determined to add these gifts on to your life by faith in Christ.