Daily life with Jesus by Grahame Howard: Living for Jesus

Wednesday 13 May 2020

Living for Jesus

"I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."

Galatians 2:20. NKJV

In verse 19, Paul had said that he had died to the law that he might live for God. He knew that Jesus had died in his place - for his sins and that he now had a new life, although he was still living in the flesh. He was now alive in Jesus, Jesus lived in his heart. The old Paul's life was over.

And if you're a Christian, yours is too. You belong to Jesus. You were crucified with Him and have risen to a new life. However, you still live in the flesh at the moment; and at times that can be a problem. We can only live our new life by faith, we can't do it any other way. Therefore, we will still make mistakes; we will still fail at times and we'll still undergo temptations.

Living the Christian life is not that we are trying our best, but rather that we allow Jesus to live in and through us by faith. By doing this, we become His representatives, we make a stand for Him wherever we are. We need to take promises such as, 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' Philippians 4:13 and

'Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.' Romans 8:37. Don't forget that as Christians, 'We walk by faith not by sight.' 2 Corinthians 5:7. To try and make it alone - without consulting with Jesus, we will only make a fool of ourselves, in fact, things may go horribly wrong. We need Him. 'Yes, but I keep letting Him down,' you may say, 'I try not to do what I do but then end up doing it.' Then, join the club. We are all the same. We are works in progress and we do things by faith; we never give up, although we may be tempted by this or that or say something bad. We still live by faith in our fleshly body.

Are you worried that you are not doing enough to deserve a relationship with Jesus? And are you fretting that you could lose your eternal life because you have and keep messing things up? Firstly, You can never earn God's love or be worthy of it by doing good works. It doesn't work that way. We receive His love by Grace. Secondly, there is nothing we can do or fail to do that will force us to forfeit our eternal life. God is faithful and He gave Himself for you so that one day, you will meet Him face to face, in Heaven and I know, He will throw His arms around you.

Copyright 2020 Grahame Howard