Gal 2:20 I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God, who loved me, and gave himself for me
Our lives belong to
Christ once we accept Him as our Savior. Yet we live as if that doesn't matter
at all. We don't act like we have a king. We don't live as if we have a real
Heavenly Father. We treat God as a genie
in a lamp, rubbing at that lamp in prayer hoping to get the genie to grant our
wishes. We don't treat God as our true Heavenly Father. A Father interested in
our ETERNITY, not our temporal life except as it pertains to our eternal life. Our earthly fathers are supposed to take care
of our temporal needs, they are supposed to guide us as we grow to maturity.
They are supposed to be examples to us as we take on the role of Fathers. Our
Heavenly Father is our eternal Father.
Yet we barely acknowledge Him at all let alone as a Heavenly
Father. We are crucified with Christ
when we accept Him as our Savior. Yet
His crucifixion took His earthly life leaving Him with a risen body ascended to
the Father returned to earth, touched by disciples and ultimately taking His
place beside the Father in Heaven. We
are figuratively crucified with Christ and yet we live on, the crucifixion is our death to self and life to Christ
therefore we can say that Christ lives in us.
We live on in our flesh bodies,
we do so by FAITH in the Son of God, who LOVES us and DIED for us.
Do we realize that
we are BOUGHT with a price?
1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own?
1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
We are NOT our own
and yet we don't act as if we've been bought. We act as if we are our own. We live as if the world revolves around us
and NOT around Christ. Our every action
is not made with Christ in mind, and why not? WHY NOT! Because we are sleeping
Laodiceans who don't realize our wretched, poor, blind and naked state! We think we are RICH in Christ, we think we
SEE, we think we are CLOTHED with the righteousness of Christ but the truth is
we are so caught up in our SELVES we don't live for Christ at all! We play act!
We pretend! We put on the guise! We are fools, stupid, stupid fools, the lot of
us!
GOD FORGIVE US!
FORGIVE US GOD FOR OUR WRETCHED STATE!
Save us, Father!
Save us from ourselves! We would buy of
You gold tried in fire! We would buy of You eye salve! We would buy of You Your
righteousness!
Rev. 3:18
Bless us, Father,
bless us! In the name of Your holy Son, Jesus Christ our LORD, our Savior!
Amen!
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