I have been crucified with Christ, no longer I but Christ lives in me is what Gal 2:20 says. It is amazing to think that when we come to Christ, we become truly alive. We say yes to God, He says yes to bringing new life on the inside of us! Our spirit becomes alive unto God and we start living the life that God has planned for us. In the midst of all that life going on, we realize that we have to crucify the flesh. Our carnal self, or our flesh, wars against the things of God. Our flesh needs to be crucified! We need to give our flesh no voice. We can do that when we crucify it! Dead people don’t talk, they don’t give their opinion, and they don’t get the opportunity state their case. So if our flesh is crucified, we don’t listen to it. We listen to the voice of the Spirit which the Bible says is the candle of the Lord. When we say yest to God and His Word, it is what lights our path, and gives us direction. God’s Spirit speaks to us in our spirit, or our “knower”, and we follow the voice of our shepherd, and no other voice. So we say no to the flesh and it is crucified, but say yes to the spirit and we come alive! Christ is who is living on the inside of us. He brings us life in abundance and running over. He is working on the inside perfecting His will in our lives. He is completing what he began on the inside of us. He wants us to resemble Who is living on the inside of us. JESUS! He wants us to be so full of Him, that all the world can see is Jesus. We can know and experience God that intimately in our lives. It really is the only way to live! We can do that as we:
“Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all the times you can
To all the people you can
As long as you can!”
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