“To live is Christ” is to continue to allow the law to reveal your abounding sin, and then to turn to the super abounding grace of God in Christ. A grace that can never be stopped as it leads us through righteousness and into eternal life.
Tag: Sin
TLIC Daily. Day 221. August 9: He made him to be sin.
Truly “to live is Christ” means becoming what we already are.
TLIC Daily. Day 107. April 17: I have taken your iniquity away from you.
“To live is Christ” means your filth is gone. Your garments are pure. The stain of sin is removed forever. Christ’s turban of our shared holiness is on his head. Satan is silenced. And all because of our union with Christ on that single day.
TLIC Daily. Day 90. March 31: Broken cisterns.
“To live is Christ” means that Jesus has replaced your broken cistern of deadly water with his indwelling river of living water.
TLIC Daily. Day 70. March 11: He does not deal with us according to our sins.
“To live is Christ” means that by faith in the death of Christ every individual sin has been dealt with forever. And by our union with Christ, God’s indwelling infinite love and forgiveness remove the indwelling force of sin in our hearts little by little, as we deal with God, not according to our sins, but according to his grace that has already dealt with all our sins.
TLIC Daily. Day 54. February 23: You are the man.
Only as we are made more and more aware of our sin (you are the man), and convinced more and more that we have died to that sin (blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity), will sin then die in our lives as we rely less and less on the self and more and more on “to live is Christ.”
To Live is Christ 