Crucified With Christ

On days, we don’t see any relationship between the idea He had when He threw the leaders out of His Father’s house because of their mismanagement of His property and us perhaps mismanaging lives that, at some point along the way, we declared were His.

Our lives are His. Our relationships with Him are not just built on the fact that we stood in line and picked up our “get-out-of-hell-free” tickets, but the transaction that gave us eternal lives required a trade-in of the former lives we pretended to have until the day of the shift.

We really were, mysteriously, crucified with Christ, and the lives we now live, we live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved us, and gave Himself for us. He is a King Who became a Sacrifice. He is still a King. He deserves the honor of being asked when we experience the marvel of waking up again each day something like, “What is this day for, Lord?” And “Please make me able to discover the answer to that, and to walk in it in a way that makes this day worth what You paid for me to experience it.”

If I rebuild those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a lawbreaker. For through the law I have died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
(Galatians 2:18-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)