Sunday, March 19, 2006

WHO AM I part 2 - It's no identity crisis we're talking about here ya...

20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" ~ Gal 2:20,21

We all may know just the part 'Its no longer I that live but Christ lives in me'
but ever so often, We have to come to terms with the fact that Jesus died for us and why? was there an alternative? No! God is holy and no doubt intolerable to sin and so much as He wants us sooooooo much to have a love relationship with Him, Jesus had to become the propitiation for our sins. And so having accepted Jesus as our Lord and personal savior,We found also the grace to live out Jesus who now lives in each one of us
21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.~2 Corinthians 5:21

We become the righteousness of God through Jesus having given up of Himself to become the very personification of sin itself and crucifying it to Himself to it and it to Himself. Putting an end to what sin did to us

1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
~Gal 5:1

This freedom gives us the choice not to live unto ourselves,as the flesh craves for the things of the flesh and according to that lifestyle we once lived for was subject to the law. But since having been given the Spirit of sonship, why would you want to turn back lest it be that we are unable to accept the knowledge of this grace that calls us to be Children of God which Apostle Paul describes as the 'the setting aside the grace of God' which so nullifies the need for Christ to die for us.
But having accepted Christ, We're to carry our own crosses and die daily to ourselves and We're then made alive to live in Him and mature in His love and agonize in Christ's suffering, the pain gradually increasing in us as we begin to feel together with understand what our sin did to Him.In those moments we have to realise our need of Him to sanctify us and restore in us His glory of which we have so much have fallen short of when we sinned. No flesh can glory in His presence, and we when found in His presence,have to cast down our crowns, laying our gifts and lives broken before Him.We even have to put every bit that tells us we're special, or unique or even how anointed we thought we are aside, take out the best of our perfume and put it on Jesus' feet and simply adore Him. There's this bodybuilder that says we have to check our egos before stepping into the gym how much more us who are being perfected into His image, working out our salvation in fear and trembling before stepping through the church doors? or even into His presence wherever we are?