To Live Is Christ

Published on 28 May 2024 at 11:19

Good morning,

For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain, Philippians 1:21

You may feel this scripture sounds like we shouldn't care if we live or die. It isn't God's intent for us to be frivolous

with the life He has blessed us with, nor is it His hope that we will give up just because He's waiting in heaven. To live

is Christ, because Christ lives in me. Yes to die is gain. However that's only because Jesus died first and for us.

To throw away and waste the precious life He's given us, it's like saying what Jesus did on the cross was a waste. Do

you want God to see you not appreciating the wonderful gift He gave us? So if to live is truly Christ, shouldn't we be living

this life for Him? We need to be letting our lights shine so bright that others can't help to see the reason we live.

To die is truly gain, but this isn't just talking about a physical death, however a spiritual death. To be a child of God we

MUST be born again! There is no other way to the father or heaven. To truly live, we must first spiritually die to self. We

have to let go of the old person and give way for the new birth within us. Once we have done this we can truly start to

live for Christ and not ourselves.

Giving ourselves and our lives over to Christ will breathe a new life and restoration. What are you waiting on? One day

it will be too late! We're not promised tomorrow, so let's make the most of the days He's given us!

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Salvation Safety Service

14 Mar 2024 12:43

John 17:1-26[1]These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:[2]As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.[3]And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.[4]I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.[5]And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.[6]I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.[7]Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.[8]For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.[9]I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.[10]And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.[11]And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.[12]While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.[13]And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.[14]I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[15]I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.[16]They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[17]Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.[18]As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.[19]And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.[20]Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;[21]That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.[22]And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:[23]I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.[24]Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.[25]O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.[26]And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.