“To live is Christ” is to continue to allow the law to reveal your abounding sin, and then to turn to the super abounding grace of God in Christ. A grace that can never be stopped as it leads us through righteousness and into eternal life.
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TLIC DAILY. DAY 176. JUNE 25: A CURSE.
“To live is Christ” means forever living free from the only curse that ever existed. The curse of the law.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 174. JUNE 23: I DIED TO THE LAW.
“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: 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. And the sad thing is we live most of our life blind to all of this. If only there was a whole new way to live. If only there was “to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 168. JUNE 17: LAW OF LIBERTY.
“To live is Christ” has turned all of God’s word into life giving, freedom bringing truth.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 44. FEBRUARY 13: IF…THEN.
“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.
