To live is Christ is to embrace the silence of God in our waiting, knowing that the cruciform life is always a life of patiently remembering Yet God until he returns.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
To live is Christ is to embrace the silence of God in our waiting, knowing that the cruciform life is always a life of patiently remembering Yet God until he returns.
This year don’t place your hope in the new year. Place your hope in the new creation, the new birth. Our new reality that is found in Christ and his unfailing covenant presence. And we don’t need a calendar change for that. No resolutions necessary. Just faith in “to live is Christ.”
Christ will reign supreme. It’s coming. And “to live is Christ” is the first-fruits. What has happened to us will happen to the rest of the universe when Jesus returns for his children. O Glorious day!
“To live is Christ” unites us to Christ as the future new creation right now. The victory is won! And yet the battle of the new creation rages in each of us.
“To live is Christ” means you can live fearlessly. You can love recklessly. You can give all of yourself away today. Knowing that all the earth is yours in Christ and all will be restored in his presence.
“To live is Christ” means that the de-creation and re-creation work of God in us is finished. We are the new creation. Right now!