You see, your transfiguration into Christ-likeness is not simply about you becoming more morally upright or pious. And it’s not about acceptable “Christian” behaviors or rule keeping. It’s about glowing with the love of Christ.
Tag: Love
May 17, 2020. Day 138: Go and do likewise.
“To live is Christ” is to be under the care of the Good Samaritan. Just as the Good Samaritan joined his life to this beaten man, caring for him, raising him up, loving him unconditionally without expectation or demand, Jesus Christ has done the same for us by giving us his indwelling life.
May 11, 2020. Day 132: Living water.
“To live is Christ” is to be full of Christ’s Spirit of living water. To be fully accepted, not for what we have done, but in spite of what we have done. It is to constantly ask for and receive so much of God’s love and grace that we naturally overflow Jesus, gushing out his eternal life to all around us. Finally, our soul’s thirsts, to be loved and to love, both fully satisfied in Christ.
May 10, 2020. Day 131: Eternal life.
“To live is Christ” is never about giving to God. It’s about receiving the best Gift you could ever get, from the best Giver ever – the love and life of our God and Savior Jesus. Now may we live lives as the givers of his love as Christ lives and loves in us.
May 4, 2020. Day 125: Love your enemies.
“To live is Christ” means you have been loved by God when you were still the enemy of God. Praise him! And it means that the perfection of Christ, the fullness of his love, has been given to you by grace. Because you are loved by God, your heart has everything it needs to love others, even enemies.
April 22, 2020. Day 113: The life was the light of men.
Now there is shining into our hearts an eternal hope in his eternal goodness and grace. Now there is the light of love.
To Live is Christ 