The Best Way to Live


Galatians 6:14 (ESV) But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Paul finishes off Galatians with this stunning statement.  He is a man totally lost and forever found in the cross.  His achievements are nothing, his legacy surrendered to Jesus Christ.  He is completely engrossed in the life given him by the death, burial and resurrection of his Lord.

He says, "far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."  Far be it!  In other words, I don't want anything else attached to my name than the cross of Christ.  

Oh to get there.  For there and only there is the true separation from this world completed.  

We struggle with our idols of desire.  What we want, what we would like to achieve, leave behind and master or acquire.  But in the end, nothing outside of Jesus matters.

I think this is why Paul was used so greatly by Christ.  He was fully and totally surrendered.  It has been said "God will use anyone greatly who doesn't need the credit."  

Are you there?  Or are you still felling that something this side of heaven will be the ultimate ultimate for you?  

The best way to live is to let it go and know beyond anything else, you belong to Christ and the world is dead to you.

PRAYER:
Father, this is my desire.  I want to be released of all idols foreign to who I am in Christ.  I want to know that I'm found in Him and dead to what this world has to offer me.  In Jesus' Name.  Amen.

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