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.
Galatians 2:20
Christianity is all about dying to ourselves. Many people see this as weak. "Why give up my desires, wants, and longings for something someone else mandates?" they wonder. "That sounds like slavery!" they charge. However, they fail to realize that surrendering our wills to Christ is like a bird
surrendering to air currents or a fish to the water.
When we surrender to the Lord, he gives me the power to be what I was made to be:
I want to be enabled to be useful in ways that are eternal, empowered so my my life is not limited my mortal boundaries, and blessed by unity with the Creator as my Father. What is lost in this surrender to Christ's living in me? Only my selfishness and my self-damage caused by rebellion.
Father, I thank you for your work in my life through Jesus. As you remake me to be more like your Son and my Savior, I trust that you will use me in ways far grander than I can imagine. Please take my heart and cleanse it thoroughly. Please take my life and use it mightily. Please expand my thoughts and help me dream more majestically. May all of this be empowered by your Son's life in
me, and may all I do, dream, and desire be for your glory on the Adventure in Middle Grove.
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