Is it Up to You?

Is it up to you? For others to see Christ? In your words, your actions, your deeds, your life? Do you hold the responsibility to display Christ for the world to see? Do you? Do you really?

For you have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer you who lives, but Christ who lives in you.

And when others see you, and praise you, and envy you. When others see you, and condemn you, and criticize you. When others see you, and see only you, and judge, you.

Are you doing it wrong?

Are you not pointing to Christ?

Because Christ came to save you. He made you fearfully and wonderfully, every part of you. And He came, not to condemn you. But to save you.

And you have been crucified with Christ. You no longer live. Christ lives in you.

Christ lives in you.

The life you now live is by faith.

In the Son of God, who loves you and gave Himself for you.

It is finished.

But for you to take responsibility. To take authority and control. To hold the duty. To take the blame. To be given the credit. It is not Christ. And it all must go. The weight of it all must go. For Christ to reign in your one life. For Christ's life to rise up within you. For Christ's work on the Cross to be completed in you, for others to see, for others to know, for others to believe, Christ. That Christ is enough. Your life must be lived. By faith.

And the responsibility is lifted. The authority and control is given back to Him Who rightfully has it anyways. And the duty becomes a love response, always. The blame and the credit, He now carries and He receives. To God be the glory forever and ever.

All the glory and the praise, only to Him. Everything. Everything, to His glory and praise. Because He is the Sovereign Almighty. Always.

Faith, from start to finish.

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"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life 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

"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." - John 3:17