The Reality of Christ, All by Faith.

To make it work, on your own, each piece must fit just right. And the more you learn, the more you acquire, the more talents and abilities and skills you have, the better equipped you feel. For life. Yes, the better you feel.

Until, it comes crashing down.

Your attempts and your efforts and your feelings. Your one self-built life. When it all comes crashing down, your feeling of security, of false-security, it escapes. It is a guarantee. It will happen. Sooner or later, it will happen. For freedom's sake, it will happen. For the salvation of your soul, it will happen.

And it will be the most glorious thing possible this side of heaven. For the necessity of your freedom requires the loosing from every and any grip of self.

For that is how you will see the reality of this life, for what it's worth. And that is how you will see the Reality of Christ's Redemption in your one life. Only then.

This is what your Redeemer longs for, to make your one life glorious before Him, to make your one life useful for Him. He longs to give you abundant life, eternal life, His Life. He longs to set you free, in the here and now, and for all eternity. So He allows life, the hard reality of life, to come in, so that the glorious Reality of His Redemptive Life is realized in your life, for your life.

So to make it work, to make life work, to make His Life in you work, each piece of your life can only be given. To Him. And the more you trust, the more you rely, the more you submit and surrender and grow, in and to Him, the better equipped you are to walk through life's reality. It's true.

Because when life comes crashing down, your one hidden life, hidden in Christ, in the Reality of His Redemption, is the life that is now lived out. All by faith.

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"For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God" - Colossians 3:3

"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