Dying to self... Is there anything more central to a believers life in Christ? In fact, Jesus tells us that unless we die to self and carry our cross we cannot be His disciple.  Is there anything that reveals our need of Grace more than dying to self? The harder we try the more we find "self" asserting it ugly "self".  The less we try the more we find a lack of concern with our "self".

Lord, give us a true view of our "self" and grant us the grace to put it to death.  Let us not rest in any sense of having "arrived". Rather, help us to say with Isaiah, "Woe is me, I am undone!".  Let this knowledge drive us to the Cross, to seek Your Grace to lay aside what we are, leaving it there.  Grant us the Spirit's power to pick up the Cross, follow you, and leave the old man behind...

Who am I?  It doesn't matter... The reality is, that if Galatians 2:20 is true, then who I am has changed.  As the verse says, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me... As Paul says in Colossians 1:27, "Christ in you, the hope of Glory"...


Why does this matter so much?  Simply because if we don't get this, we will surely endeavor to live for our kingdom, not His. I have been bought with a price... I am no longer my own... I am a slave to the One who conquered and who gives me life.  So you see, it doesn't matter who I am... It matters who He is!

I've been Crucified with Christ...