GALATIANS 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

TO PONDER

There is the fundamental truth about a Christian. The person I was in Adam is dead, and the risen Christ is now doing the living in my earthly body. When we, by faith, are united to Christ, we are first united to his death. Since our old rebellious, unbelieving selves died with Christ, in union with him in his death, we are made alive by the Spirit to walk in newness of life as Christ living through us so that all our life becomes a display of Christ. 

PRAYER: Our Heavenly Father, I am presenting myself to you as one who has been brought from death to life, and my whole self to you as an instrument for righteousness so that my life may reflect a visible manifestation of the way Christ lives righteously in the world. Amen

Today's devotion written by Francis Leung, LifeWay Epping