To live is Christ allows us to see the purpose in our weakness, our trial, our temptation. It is not meaningless, it is transforming. Can you see the change occurring in your life?
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
To live is Christ allows us to see the purpose in our weakness, our trial, our temptation. It is not meaningless, it is transforming. Can you see the change occurring in your life?
The psalmist is reminding us not of the patriarch’s great moral example that we must follow (far from it), but of the great grace of God that we must trust by faith. Faith alone in grace alone is what to live is Christ requires. The morality will follow faith, in this life and definitely in the next. Until then let Christ be you Savior first and the only example you need second.
To live is Christ places us firmly within the covenant promises of Christ, and within the land of his love. A forever home of goodness and mercy all the days of our lives. Forever.
To live is Christ is to seek this same Lord’s presence in the same way that the psalmist envisions for the people of faith – continually. A reality made known to us by the continual presence of Christ in our very hearts by the Spirit.
Christ in us protects us from this destruction. Union with Christ keeps our hearts rejoicing in the works and THE WORK of Christ for as long as we live, and as long as we have being, which in Christ is forever. Life without end. Joy without end. That’s to live is Christ.
In Christ death is not the end. The return to dust is no longer God’s final word. Jesus has conquered death and the grave. Now our lives have ultimate meaning. Now the meaning of life isn’t “enjoy everything and die,” now to live is Christ is “enjoy God and live forever.”