_To Die is Gain, To Live is Christ.

Ifind that the more I reflect on my death, and especially my death in the death of Christ and Christ’s death specifically, the more I find sin to be more detestable and horrible. All the more I long to be with Him in glory. All the more I long to have a glimpse of His glory in the means of grace He has graciously appointed for us weak sinners. All the more I see life’s challenges as they really are as compared with the wonder that is in our Sovereign King, nothing but mere trifles.

Perhaps it is there that the Apostle Paul can speak of living as “Christ”. (Galatians 2:20) Not that he seeks to live as close to the example of the life of Christ. Neither that he wants his life to exemplify Christ-likeness. But rather a life that is so filled with the Spirit of our Sovereign King even down through the very bone of it’s essence and all sense of personality and self is obliterated that this King may be exalted. So much so that the apostle could say nothing less but: “to live…IS Christ.”

What a convicting reality it is that we fail to have such a perspective in the majority of our lives, even in the majority of the hours of our days. But what greater comfort there is in that it is not in our ability to be faithful that we are to be conformed to such a mind, but rather it is in His immutable faithfulness!