To live is Christ allows us to honestly face our sinful heart, not from fear of rejection, but from the freedom of new covenant grace.
Learning to live by the indwelling life of Christ.
To live is Christ allows us to honestly face our sinful heart, not from fear of rejection, but from the freedom of new covenant grace.
Does to live is Christ leave room for this total dedication to God as the posture of the Christian’s heart? Only when it follows our total dependence upon God’s dedication to us in Christ.
To live is Christ is to trust the pattern of God’s sanctification grace. Through flood and through fire, but never alone. Into abundance, but never by our own doing. Christ is always with us. He knows the way through the sea. Fix your eyes on him and simply follow.
To live is Christ is to make his praise glorious so that in it others will hear an invitation to come and see.
If this is nature’s response to God’s abundant grace, how much more must to live is Christ awaken our hearts to join the cry of nature’s song in praise to God as we await his renewal of all things in Christ.
A sinner saved by grace is what the ends of the earth will stand in awe of one day. And to live is Christ is what will change a heart today.