QUIT TRYING TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN LIFE

QUIT TRYING TO LIVE A CHRISTIAN LIFE

What have you been told is the secret to the Christian life?

Pray and read your Bible? 

Go to church? 

Witness? 

Speak in tongues? 

Tithe? 

Do good works?

Let me go on record. I do not believe anything on that list even comes close to the issue of how to live the Christian life. All have one inherent flaw, the fatal flaw? Every item on the aforementioned list assumes that it is possible to live the Christian life.

Can you live the Christian life? The answer is no, a resounding NO! You cannot live the Christian life. 

Romans 8:1-2 Consequently, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 

So live the life  of the Spirit in Christ Jesus. Jesus is the Life. He is the highest life. God the Father is the wellspring, the source, the first motion, and the fountainhead of the life abundant. 

John 10:10b I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration. But on the day you quit trying to live the Christian life, then you will finally give Him the freeway to live out in you what is so easy and so simple and so organic for Him to do. Hopefully, you just got set free from a long list of do's and don'ts (the "do's" you can't do, and the "don'ts" you always do). Why look so shocked; stop and think about it. You never were any good at living the Christian life. Admit it. Let Christ live in you, through you and as you.

(Gal 2:20)  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

JUST BE!!

• I am a child of God.

• I am a branch of the true vine, and a conduit of Christ’s life.

• I am a friend of Jesus.

•  I am a fellow heir with Christ

• I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with Him.

• I am a new creation in Christ.

• I am no longer a slave, but a child and an heir.

• I am chosen, holy, and blameless before God.

• I am seated in the heavenly places with Christ.

• I am God’s workmanship created to produce good works.

• I am a member of Christ’s body and a partaker of His promise.

• I am a citizen of heaven.

This list goes on and on. Not the list of dos and don'ts.