“To live is Christ” has given us a whole new operating system. The If-Then that would have crushed us is now made obsolete by the Because-Therefore of our union with Christ.
Tag: Law
October 24, 2020. Day 298: If with Christ you died.
“To live is Christ” has freed us from the religion of this world. Our hearts are meant for so much more than such dead religion, such regulation keeping, such “cause-effect” basics. In fact, we have died to all these. And now we are alive to dwell within the wild and wonderful love of God. A love that is a law to itself. A law that is a life that has been hidden with Christ in God.
September 2, 2020. Day 246: Wretched man that I am!
“To live is Christ” allows us to take a deeply honest look at our own wretchedness as law keepers and then place our hope in the one who will deliver us from the body of death.
August 29, 2020. Day 242: You are not under law but under grace.
“To live is Christ” is to trust in your position in grace alone. Your full forgiveness. Your freedom from the power and consequence of sin. Your resurrection unto eternal life. It is to rest in the freedom of his unconditional love. A resting that will bring true obedience as the impulse of his love.
August 4, 2020. Day 217: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
“To live is Christ” is to live by the Spirit of freedom. Freedom from the law and it’s condemnation. And freedom to trust the power of God’s love that has poured into every beating heart of every believer in Christ.
July 30, 2020. Day 212: Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.
“To live is Christ” is to live in his steadfast, immovable, abounding love so that we might live today from his eternal work of love.
