We Are Christ's.

1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. 

 

We belong to Christ when we choose Christ.

Christ took us all to the cross with Him, dying for us all so we may have eternal life with Him.

 

Eternal life. Do you want eternal life? Most would say not if it's a life of continuous pain and heartache, sickness and death. They would want eternal life if it was a life of peace, health, happiness.

 

Eternal life.

 

We can have this, we can have eternal life and that life will be one of peace, health, happiness.

 

I have to, or rather, I choose to believe in the hope of an eternal life without sin at its core.  This world I have been born into currently has sin at its core.

 

Everywhere we turn sin results are present. We can't go a single day without being confronted with the results of sin. We need to recognize sin for what it is, the reality of sin. To dismiss sin is to dismiss the fact that life is not what it was intended to be. To accept this sin-filled existence as how life is intended to be lived surely brings a lot of hopelessness. I do NOT want to believe for one moment that human beings are intended to live with sin and its results, not for a moment!

 

All bad things are a result of sin. Some people don't agree, they say we use it as in excuse to pawn off badness on another and not accept responsibility for our own bad acts. Truthfully all bad has its origin in Satan, whether anyone agrees or not, I don't care. When we commit bad acts we do so as a result of being born into a world where Satan rules. We choose to act badly, we are not forced to do so. We make choices. We are tempted to embrace the bad and we can do so very easily. To be able to seek forgiveness for our bad acts when they occur so suddenly- like a harsh word brought on by a disgruntled thought- is necessary because it acknowledges the wrongness of what we've done. Recognizing sin in ourselves is something we need to do, because we need to repent of it, ask forgiveness for it, to desire NOT to sin, to not be a part of the badness that surrounds us at every turn.

 

Christ has made it possible for us to have eternal life, in Him.

 

We ask Christ to live in us, and we ask daily. We recognize that we live with Christ in us, our hope. Our hope isn't in ourselves, it is fully in Christ. We cannot save ourselves. We must be saved by Christ. We must ALLOW Christ to save us. It must be an active allowance, a constant allowance of Christ to live in us and in living in us be a PART of our lives. When you ask someone to live with you, you are inviting them to be a part of your life. You expect them to interact with you. Even if you have a tenant, a roommate strictly there for financial support and nothing more, you have interaction. We need Christ to be so much a part of our lives that He is with us always, in all we do, never separated from Him. He is our Savior and we need to want Him to guide ALL we do. All we do is for His glory, not ours!

 

We are Christ's.