Galatians
2:19-21 For
through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. 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. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if
righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
A Christian life is in
harmony with our nature, with who God created us to be.
A woman who was thoughtful
and intelligent and not a Christian, but who had the deepest interest for truth
and that which is right, asked: “How can this be that Christ lives in me when I
have died? If this is true, don’t I lose my individuality? This could only
destroy my personality, and it violates our responsibility as individuals.”
The answer to such an
inquiry is that your personality is only half of what it should be without
Christ. Christ was made for you, and you were made for Christ. Until you meet
Him, you are not complete. You need Him to become the full person that God
intends you to be.
Imagine a gas line going
into a stove. Suppose the gas says that if I unite with the pilot light” then I
will lose my individuality. But the truth is that when the gas meets the fame
it becomes what it was intended to be. Only when combined does the gas fulfill
its very purpose for being.
Suppose a snowflake says it
will not fall to the ground because it will lose its unique individual nature.
The truth is that when it falls to the ground it becomes what God intended, the
nourishment for grass, river life and flowers. Unless it unites with the ground
it, too, will not fulfill its purpose.
When a person comes to
Christ he or she will gain more than what they might think they will lose. It
is God’s plan for you that you be lost in Christ in order to be found by God
and fulfill your life purpose for His glory.
