Becoming Like Him In Death—and In Life

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
Galatians 2:20

To the Roman mind, the cross marked a place of execution, not a haven for life.

And yet that cruelest of deaths would one day become a mark of distinction. Paul would later rejoice to proclaim, “I have been crucified with Christ.”

Confused? Listen as Andrew Murray probes the significance of the cross in Jesus’ day … and in yours.

WALK WITH ANDREW MURRAY
“All his life Christ bore his cross—the death sentence that he should die for the world.

“And each Christian must bear his cross, acknowledging that he is worthy of death, and believing that he is crucified with Christ, and that the Crucified One lives in him.

“When we have accepted the life of the cross, we will be able to say with Paul: ‘May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ’ (Galatians 6:14).

“Let the disposition of Christ on the cross, his humility, his sacrifice of all worldly honor, his spirit of self-denial, take possession of you.

“The power of his death will work in you, and you will become like him in his death; you will know him and the power of his resurrection.”

WALK CLOSER TO GOD
Christ died an ignoble death that he might rise to glorious life. Now he invites you to “live by faith in the Son of God” (Galatians 2:20). You are crucified with Christ that you might experience the life of Christ.

Let the words of Isaac Watts lift your heart in praise for the life-bringing cross of Christ:

Alas! and did my Savior bleed?

And did my Sov’reign die? Would He devote that sacred head

For such a worm as I? But drops of grief can ne’er repay

The debt of love I owe: Here, Lord, I give myself away,

‘Tis all that I can do!