Galatians 2: 20 [KJV]
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Believers who live by their strength and efforts have not known the grace available in Christ Jesus. Those who seek to live by their personal resolutions and performance rather than allowing Christ to be fully expressed will not be able to resist the railings of Satan because by no strength shall man prevail.
Resolutions are good, but cannot provide succour in the presence of the accuser; what establishes us is “our working knowledge of the Word of truth.” A man’s effort cannot justify his right standing before God; God is more interested in the source of our good works (Christ); Christ is the center of our good works not our actions.
We must learn to see everything in Christ. We must speak like Paul “Yet Not I, but Christ Living In Me”. We ought to be concerned with “who we are” in Christ and “who Christ is to us”, then “what we can do” in or through him.
In Christ, God has dealt with all believers justly. God will never approve or justify any work outside Christ. He’s pleased with Christ in us alone, nothing matters. Any work outside Christ is self glory, no matter how good they seem to be. Only good works in Christ matters so much to God. Our confidence is not in the flesh!
Philippians 3: 2 [KJV]
“For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh”.
Our being precedes our doing; many are quick to knowing “what they can do” rather than knowing “who they are and what they have”.
We ought to be wrapped in the reality of who Christ has become to us and what we have become in Him; then good works, void of self-glory or self-seeking would be manifested because the source of those good works is Christ who is active and alive in us.
DECLARATION
All I see is Jesus! All I see in Christ in me the Hope of glory. I am no longer conscious of myself, me or I; all I see, hear and know is Christ. He is my life, words, thought and actions. Yet not I; but Christ living in me. Glory to God! (Please spend more time to pray in the Holy Ghost
SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES
2 Corinthians 5: 17 – 18; Philippians 3: 9 – 10