Crucified with Christ - SonLight Daily Devotional for May 1

Crucified with Christ
SonLight Daily Devotional Daily Devotional for May 1

Galatians 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."

Paul is saying that he is totally occupied with the thoughts, the actions, and the motives of his Lord Christ Jesus. He is so overwhelmed with the presence of the Lord that he just has to share it with others. He is not satisfied with keeping what he knows to be true, as some are. He can still remember when he was against Christ Jesus; until he met the Lord on the road to Damascus. This was the place of Paul's conversion. The joy Paul has now, he wants to share with others.

Paul has learned over the many years that Christ Jesus has really loved him, and will never leave him nor forsake him in Hebrews 13:5b. Paul knew that while he lived, it was Christ Jesus that was guiding him to all truth in his life. The power of the resurrection of our Lord was Paul's source of strength, so that when he had to endure hardships; he was always turned into the everlasting arms of his Saviour.

Paul is the one that wrote Romans 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life".

The flesh needs to be crucified. If not, there is no power in the resurrection of Christ Jesus in the believer. The unsaved lives totally in the flesh. You need to come to Jesus and be saved so that you can experience the power of Christ Jesus' resurrection.

Bible References (KJV)

Hebrews 13:5 "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

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