19-21What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man. Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.
Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God's grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
I think that we have started as crucified with Christ but then things got difficult... Life wasn't so easy to live... so we gave up the life of crucifixion... we got off the cross b/c it was a little difficult... while Jesus waits with YOUR Cross in his hands saying "If YOU will pick this up I will take u to places you've never been before" "You will see things you've never seen before" "Do things you've never done before" all because you gave it ALL to ME!! and held nothing back
"People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks:
- They are facing only one direction,
- They can never turn back, and
- They no longer have plans of their own."
A.W. Tozer
Are U really crucified w/ Christ????
Or have u walked off the cross b/c it got to hard??
getting back on the cross
Ben,
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