To live is Christ” means we are the firstfruits of God’s new creation. Christ is the greatest gift that allows us to enjoy all God’s other gifts.
June 20, 2020. Day 172: The crown of life.
“To live is Christ” means that all along this trying race called life Jesus is transforming you into his very own likeness. His endurance. His perfection. His fullness. His wisdom. His character.
June 19, 2020. Day 171: Taught by God to love.
“To live is Christ” tells us two important truths about our love. It is a brotherly love. It should feel normal and natural to love others. Love is born into us. And it is also being “taught to us” by God himself. The Holy Spirit. Christ in us. The Trinity’s love for one another teaching us what our love can and should look like in our churches, homes, communities, and beyond.
June 18, 2020. Day 170: We were ready to share the gospel of God but also our own selves.
“To live is Christ” has made you a giver. A sharer of the good news of God and of your own self. May God grant us his grace today as we seek to share life with others, both pointing them to Christ and being Christ to them in these difficult days.
June 17, 2020. Day 169: Not only in word, but also in power.
Are you experiencing the power of Christ by the Holy Spirit? Are you patient in hope, worshiping from faith, and laboring in love for others? Only the gospel can empower such living. Only our union with Christ can provide the hope needed for this kind of power. Resurrection power. The power of “to live is Christ.”
June 16, 2020. Day 168: What God has made clean, do not call common.
“To live is Christ” means you are no longer separated from God. And it means you are separated from those who are not yet in Christ. But not so that you can stay separated. We have been brought out of the world so that we could be sent back into the world. Not hiding behind our convictions. But living from the conviction that the gospel alone can unite all mankind.
To Live is Christ 