CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY
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| Lee-an, Gigi, Annie, Gwen |
It is impossible to live the Christian life. That is something that God taught me through this gate
and understanding that, the Lord taught me how I need to live my life totally
surrendered to Him. Like a baby in the womb totally surrounded by water. No
baby can survive in the water but babies in the womb do! The baby survives in
that sack of water because it is attached to the mother by the umbilical cord
through which the mother supplies everything that the baby needs.
The life of the baby is
sustained by the life of the mother. If the mother would stop breathing and her
heart would stop beating, so would the baby. If the mother would not eat, the
baby will not receive the nourishment it needs. The total dependence of the baby
to the mother is a picture of how our
dependence on the LORD should look like: that we could not survive with without
Jesus; that we need to be totally dependent on Jesus with our very life.
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| abide by the ONE who knows the way |
“I am
the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear
much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” – john
15:5
Through the Holy Spirit we can experience Christ-life. Like
the umbilical cord, He is our lifeline. Through the Holy Spirit Christ provides
us everything that we need to live His life as we walk with Him. Therefore, Christian
life is a life of total dependence on God. Like what the Apostle Paul wrote, “
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and
gave himself for me.” – Galatians 2:20
Just like the Apostle Paul, I have been crucified with Christ
and the life I live now is not my own. He is now living in me and He is working
on and working in me. My role is to live by faith and daily declare and live a
life of total dependence to the Lord Jesus Christ that He may live His life
through me.
Without
Christ, I cannot live the Christian life. I am not holy but I train
to be holy. Through the life that Christ has given me, by the indwelling and
infilling of the Holy Spirit, I can live the Christian life and I can be more
like Him.
If you are in Christ and Christ is in you, you can say of Him,
“For me to live is Christ.”
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| Gigi and Gwen |
- Gigi, 24
South Cotabato
Gigi plans to stay longer in Samar to continue follow up in the river villages.
