Is it possible that
you have completely misunderstood what it means to be Christian? God has not "raised you from the
dead" so that you will be the same person you were before. He died for you so that you might be
completely new and the newness is not in your better attitude, your more
motivated outlook or your developed skill set.
Nothing could be done with you if all that was before you were improved
Bible studies and higher insights into Christian living. The Lord died for you that He might live in
you and be joined to you. He blew the
top off the lid when He was crucified and made you the Holy of Holies; not a
sanctimonious museum filled with God "stuff" but the actual place
where the Lord dwells. We have spent so
much wasted time worrying about whether as the temple of the Holy Spirit we
should be smoking or looking at pornography.
It is all a wash but this one matter.
By dying on the Cross, Jesus Christ joins into your personality, your
will and your discernment and that completely alters the playing field. Paul said that He had been crucified with
Christ and He meant it. This was not
religious noise. He said that it was no
longer him that lived but Christ lived in him and he meant it. He was not spouting philosophical gibberish. Why do we so quickly blow past the most
important part of being born again? We
are joined with Christ. Are we afraid of
what has happened? Are we
incredulous? You, when you believed in
the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, attained His life living through you and it is
time you gave Him breathing room, made a way for Him to work in and with
you. Every point in the Sermon on the
Mount is a place where God can live through you and make you fully functional. You could not love your enemies before but
Christ can through you. You could not
swell with joy at one sinner coming to Christ as the Father does but Christ can
through you. You could not hate the
world and bless the very ones who make your life so distressing but Christ can
through you. The biggest error we make
as a Christian people is thinking we cannot do the perfect thing the Lord lays
out for us because we completely
disregard Christ living through us.
...and I no longer live but Christ lives in me… Galatians 2: 20
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