“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life 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, the apostle, describing his life in Christ in his letter to the Galatians.
The Christ life is truly just that – the very life of Christ lived in each true disciple. That life is not found in following His example or directions. It is not being involved in any organization. It is our life replaced daily by His life. We become the place of His incarnation on the earth, the enfleshment of His Spirit who takes up residence in us and control over our living. We do not become the only begotten of the Father; we become the habitation of the only begotten of the Father.
True discipleship is the seeking to lay aside ownership and control over one’s life, body, decisions, choices, values, will, and all the rest of daily living. No longer do the true disciples seek to live their own life through their own souls and bodies. They give way daily to Jesus, to allow Him to live His life through their souls and bodies. True disciples are the dwelling place and ministry instruments of Christ Himself. He does the life and ministry in me, not me. If it is of Christ , it is true life.
When one is given over to be Christ’s habitation, His glory will begin to be evident. The glory will not that of the disciple. It will be the glory of the risen Christ who is becoming more and more visible in the true disciple. Paul told the Colossians that the mystery of being godly is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.“
As humans we bear the image of our God. Yet only as true disciples, fully yielded and surrendered to His life in place of our own living do we bear the glory of God. We are merely vessels to be filled with the life and work of Christ by His indwelling Spirit. As Paul wrote to the Christ-life disciples in Corinth, “For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.”
Our flesh and our souls comprise these “clay jars” into which the life of Christ is poured. To seek to glorify the self and not the contents is misuse. We must give way to Christ’s life in all our living continually, for only by so doing do we become worthy vessels for His filling. As He lives His resurrected life in us and through us it is Christ, who shines through.
Only the truly humble become the habitation of Christ on earth. In His original incarnation, Christ Jesus was humble and submissive to the will of His Father every moment. That humility, that “not my will be thine” attitude was His operative choice every single day. He continues to choose so to the point of death on a cross.
If our Lord, our Captain, our very source of life who inhabits us lived this humility at all times, we can do life no other way. To not let Him live His life in and through us in like humility would be to continue in rebellion. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus….“
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Yes! The authentic Christ life is expressed, manifested, and demonstrated for us, in us, and through us, by the surrender of self to the indwelling, infilling, overflowing superscendent Splendor of the Son, not by striving as certain beloved bloggers would have us vainly believe.
Christocentricity is all grace, accessed by humility and faith functioning by, fueled and fortified with love such that God grandly gets all the glory as the sole Source and sufficient Supply of Himself as both our Savior and Sanctifier.
Carnally, Christlessly clenching our fists, gritting our teeth, and trying harder yet even longer, cannot not cut it. It is like trying to piss a hole in the wind. That which cuts completely is the crux of the cross, Christ Himself no less. The more we seek and strive to please in our strength, the more we spin our wheels, deepening the religious rut we are in. We are not partnering with His Person and potency if we do not stay between the ditches. All is grace so that God receives all the glory! We shall never achieve what Christ predeterminedly purposed and presciently prepared by His Spirit, to Whom we are to yield as the One capable of and desirous of doing. There is no good but God! None whatsoever!
Let us become like little children abiding trustfully in the beauty of the purity and simplicity that is our honest, holy devotion to Christ, growing up in the nurture and admonition of our lover Lord because longingly, lovingly we keep our merciful, magnificent, munificent Maker and Master before the eyes of our hearts, instead of on our weak, wobbly, wayward, wanton selves and the sin, we and others are steeped in. Staring at sin, ours nor anyone else’s is the solution; our Savior and Sanctifier is the Solution.
2 Corinthians 3:12-18 AMP12 Since we have such a [glorious] hope and confident expectation, we speak with great courage, 13 and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze at the end of the glory which was fading away. 14 But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted because it is removed [only] in Christ. 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart; 16 But whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.
Psalm 27:4 AMPOne thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek:That I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life,To gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the LordAnd to meditate in His temple.
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