Crucified with Christ

“I 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.” Galations 2:20

I was thinking on this verse the other day and reflecting on just how powerful it is. As I picked it apart in my mind it began to carry more weight. Through Christs death on the cross, on my behalf, it is no longer I who is living, but rather its Christ living in me.  I will never be who I could have been prior to my meeting Christ. At least that’s the conclusion I came to in my mind and the more I allowed myself to dwell on it the more my mind was blown. Crazy concept!  

I also love the last part of that verse as well. Christ loved me so much that he gave himself for me. As it says in John 15:13 - “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” We’re surrounded by all different kinds of love on a daily basis – the love shown by serving, friendship, a kind word, ect. But the greatest kind of love? Meaning one dies in order that they might save another - that was shown for me.. Insignificant, pitiful, nothing more than ordinary me. The God of the Universe looked at me and said “To Me, you’re worth dying for.”  Well, if that doesn’t send chills down ones spine I don’t know what would. He considered me worth dying for so then why do I willfully choose not to live for Him? I’m completely and totally indebted to Him for saving me and yet days go by where I live only for myself and my needs and what I want. It’s painfully selfish. I want to be the kind of girl who takes Ephesians 4:1 (“live a life worthy of the calling you have received”) more seriously and attempts to live it out every chance I get. Regretfully I fail more than I succeed, but it does not decrease my desire to live that way. It’s a daily battle but the rewards for living in such a way are incalculably amazing.