It's not always easy to live by faith and not by sight. It takes serious effort. And sometimes it takes choosing blindness to certain things so that your eyes can be opened to the things of God. Rules and religious laws have had to become blind spots for me. I've needed to stop focusing on striving for impressing God or others, and turn my sights on letting Him live His resurrected life through me.
"So I quit being a 'law man' so that I could be God's man. Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not 'mine' but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going back on that." - Galatians 2:19-20 (Msg)
The more we mature into this life of Grace Reversal God has called us to, the more we realize that the power to live in Him comes through Him. I have a few more prepositions to add, so bear with me. Salvation comes from Him, not from ourselves, so we must leave behind all notions of earning goodness and favor from ourselves and the things we do. Because of the Cross, not only are we now with Christ, we are in Him. A part of who He is, grafted in by mercy, welcomed in with open arms. So our lives are also for Him, lived in cooperation with the Holy Spirit to be more like Him, living like its all about Him.
I want to see Him through, in, about, from, and around me. His life lived through mine.
Yes, Jesus.
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