To live is Christ is to always remember the hopelessness of our natural state before God’s grace came rushing in by faith. Faith in the propitiating satisfaction of Christ’s shed blood for us.
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TLIC Psalms. February 28. Forgiven.
To live is Christ is to live within the blessing of the full and free forgiveness of Christ’s cross
An Ancestral Advent Day 21: The Son of Jeconiah.
By becoming the curse for us he ended the curse of sin and death in the life of every Christian. That’s what Christmas is all about – curse breaking and blessing giving. That’s what our union with Christ is all about too, like Jeconiah the curse is broken and the blessing has come, not just on the outside, but inside our hearts.
An Ancestral Advent Day 14: The Son of Bathsheba.
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?
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.
To Live is Christ 