“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!
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
“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!
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.”
One day everything else in the universe will also be brought to its fullest potential. It’s true self. Everything will function exactly how God intended for it to function. God’s just rule will be established everywhere. 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. All the power of sin has been removed and all of our hopes have been realized by our union with Christ. The victory is won! And yet the battle of the new creation rages in each of us. The battle that can be won daily as we live by faith and trust in who and what we are in Christ.
“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” joins our lives to his in perfect harmony with all creation and our Creator.