To live is Christ is to be radically different in both our holiness and our love. We should be both strange and attractive to the world. Holy yet hopeful. Clean yet caring. Pure yet peaceful. Sanctified yet sacrificing.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
To live is Christ is to be radically different in both our holiness and our love. We should be both strange and attractive to the world. Holy yet hopeful. Clean yet caring. Pure yet peaceful. Sanctified yet sacrificing.
Instead of trusting in these lesser glories, it’s time to act with the zeal of Phinehas against them (Num. 25). Not so as to be counted as righteous, but from the righteousness of Christ in you. From to live is Christ.
To live is Christ is to have this eternal Savior, our chosen champion of forgiveness and grace, placed in the gap by God himself. May we forever see the glory of this Savior, and refuse to exchange the glory of Christ for the lesser glories that captivate our hearts but can never heal our hearts as he can.
To live is Christ will not let you go a single minute without the hand of God upon you. The hand of his loving discipline burning up the chaff of sin that remains in your heart until you are like him for seeing him as he is.
Does to live is Christ have you walking on dry ground? Or are you stuck in the paralyzing mud of ingratitude and forgetfulness?
To live is Christ is to be blessed with all the goodness that IS God. Goodness that allows us to observe and do. Grace that empowers our own true goodness as we, through Christ, participate in all that is God. All that is good.