“To live is Christ” is made possible by unending flow of Christ’s indwelling love, joy, and peace.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
“To live is Christ” is made possible by unending flow of Christ’s indwelling love, joy, and peace.
“To live is Christ” is to live in all the power of the ascended Christ. To receive his Spirit. To receive God’s presence into our very being.
“To live is Christ” is to live in the heart calming shalom of God. Christ has left his peace with us and it is himself.
“To live is Christ” is to have the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, ministering the death and resurrection of Christ to my life. To be filled with the Spirit is to be filled with the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the finished work of Christ is the ongoing work of the Spirit in us. By the Spirit, Christ’s death IS our life. And our dying is now our living.
“To live is Christ” means we will spend every day of our lives learning to joyfully and faithfully depend on our true friend, God’s Spirit, for all that Jesus offers to us by his resurrection life and our Father’s unconditional love.
“To live is Christ” means any time you’re feeling like a pile of lifeless dry bones, overwhelmed or underwhelmed, you can hear the word of the Lord. You can hear the prophet speak to your heart. Thus says the Lord, I HAVE put my Spirit in you and you ARE alive. Alive in Christ.