July 26, 2013

No one ever told us that in order to experience the out working of the life of Christ in our lives there must be an in working of the death of Christ in us.  In other words, if Jesus is going to live in us and through us, then we must, by the Spirit, allow the death of the cross to be worked into us.  In other words, as the life of Jesus was brought to an end on the cross at Calvary, today our lives must be brought to an end by the Holy Spirit applying the cross of Jesus to our lives that Christ might live in us and through us.  This is a spiritual experience.  As you abandon your life to Christ, the Spirit will take you and so apply the cross to your life that you cease to move in self, talk in self, live in self, and cease acting in self – doing what you want to do.  The cross of Jesus implies death to self or death to the self-life in order to experience the life of God.