UNION WITH CHRIST

Life in union with Christ! God affirms this to me as the key to all of life! I just can’t get over this truth, and I hope I never do. I suppose that’s what eternity is for…to forever bask in Christ! Consider the following verse:

When Christ WHO IS OUR LIFE appears,

then you also will appear with Him in glory (Colossians 3:4).

Amazing!

This intimate union is all because of the cross of Christ:

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death,

CERTAINLY we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection

(Romans 6:5).

I can get so busy that I fall for the temptation of trying to do all the right things. However, God doesn’t want me to live trying to do right! I can do what is right in my own eyes and still be unconcerned for God’s glory and honor (see Judges 17:6). God wants me to live solely by trusting (resting in) the life of His dear Son in me (Hebrews 4:1).

I can also fall for another temptation of doing things with God’s help. However, God doesn’t just want to help me! J Oh how He wants to live through me in the life of His dear Son to minister to others (Galatians 2:20)!

These two attempts (at-temptations!) at “living” are based on the subtle deception that I have a separate identity from Christ – that I have something in me that can do something of real value. I do have a unique personality, but it is truly manifested only when Christ lives through me.