What about us? Where does our shame go? Where does our trauma find its resting place? Is it in the promise of another child who was born to die so that all of us Bathshebas and all of us Davids might live?
Tag: Sin
TLIC DAILY. DAY 345. DECEMBER 11: GOD’S SEED.
If you can see yourself as God’s child, born of God, participating in his own nature, then, you might just find that your doing has begun to match your being. You might just find that your “to live” looks like it “is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 323. NOVEMBER 19: THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD.
“To live is Christ” means no more sin management. No more wondering if we’re forgiven. No more keeping an account with God, because he does not keep an account with us. Once for all forgiveness! Every sin put away. There is no greater gift. There is no greater love.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 322. NOVEMBER 18: HIS OWN BLOOD.
This is the result of the cross – eternal redemption. All who are in Christ will live every day, forever, in the glory of Christ’s freeing sacrifice for sins. Every debt paid. The disease of sin cured. Christ’s own blood redeeming us unto “to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 305. NOVEMBER 1: TO SAVE SINNERS.
The growing and progressing Christian knows that life only comes out of death and defeat. Trusting the Spirit to minister the death of the old and the life of the new in us as we choose more and more to trust in “to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 235. AUGUST 23: UNDER GRACE.
“To live is Christ” is to trust in your position in grace alone. Your full forgiveness. Your freedom from the power and consequence of sin. Your resurrection unto eternal life. It is to rest in the freedom of his unconditional love. A resting that will bring true obedience as the impulse of his love.
To Live is Christ 