To live is Christ” means that you are in Christ and Christ is in you. But the Christ in you is embryonic. A seed. A life that is slowly but surely growing you into the life and love of Jesus.
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TLIC Daily. Day 177. June 26: Adoption as sons.
“To live is Christ” means embracing your adoption and learning to cry to your Abba. To live all of life from his delight in you, and your dependence on him. Knowing that you have the unchanging, unending, love of your heavenly dad. The love of a son. The love of the Son, Jesus himself.
TLIC Daily. Day 176. June 25: Christ became a curse for us.
“To live is Christ” means forever living free from the only curse that ever existed. The curse of the law. And, beyond this, it means living in the blessing of Christ’s own life. The life of curse crushing love and mercy that now lives in you.
TLIC Daily. Day 175. June 24: Christ lives in me.
“To live is Christ” IS Christ lives in me. No more and no less. His death is our death. His life is our life. All that is his is ours. All that he has done is applied to us. There is no greater truth in life than this. No greater hope. Nor greater love. You are as loved by God as Jesus is. Do you believe this? Will you, this very day, live by faith in this One who loved you and gave himself for you? I know you will.
TLIC Daily. Day 174. June 23: I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
“To live is Christ” is therefore much, much, more than self-denial or the “imitation of Christ.” It is a whole new identity, a new reality, a new nature. It’s a whole new life and a whole new way to live. Alive through death. Living by dying.
TLIC Daily. Day 173. June 22: A person is not justified by works of the law.
And so here we are, trapped in the dead end of the law. Deceived into thinking that what condemns us will actually justify us. If only there was a whole new way to live. If only there was “to live is Christ.”
To Live is Christ 