“To live is Christ” means being filled with the knowledge of God’s will (Christ-likeness) and being instinctively controlled by the wisdom and understanding of God (Christ himself). That’s faith. That’s our union with Christ.
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TLIC DAILY. DAY 282. OCTOBER 9: DO ALL THINGS.
When we know all that we have IN Christ, then we can do all things THROUGH Christ. We can gain and we can lose. No matter what we can be satisfied because “to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 281. OCTOBER 8: STAND FIRM.
“To live is Christ” is to stand firm in the life altering hope of his glorious return for us one day. A future hope that allows us to respond to our present reality with all faith, hope, love, joy, and peace.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 280. OCTOBER 7: PRESS ON.
“To live is Christ” is not earning, but it is effort. The grace driven effort of resting in God’s goodness and faithfulness.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 279. OCTOBER 6: BECOMING LIKE HIM.
Knowing Christ’s resurrection power through the fellowship of suffering and the likeness of his death. This is “to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 278. OCTOBER 5: GAIN CHRIST.
“To live is Christ” means every loss in life is the opportunity for glorious gain. The gaining of a deeper knowledge and a fuller feeling of the love of God in Christ. This is the great contradiction of Christianity, the paradox of the gospel. Gaining is losing, but losing is gaining. Gaining Christ.
To Live is Christ 