“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.
Tag: Law
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.
July 9, 2020. Day 191: The one who sows to the Spirit.
“To live is Christ” is to give up the control of the cause- effect system of law keeping. And in its place to adopt the control forfeiting faith of sowing to the Spirit. Which is guaranteed life. Christ’s life growing in you, reaping a harvest of love and grace for all eternity.
June 30, 2020. Day 182: 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.
June 28, 2020. Day 180: 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.
June 27, 2020. Day 179: A person is not justified by works of the law.
So here we are, trapped in the dead end of the law. If only there was a whole new way to live. If only there was “to live is Christ.”
