October 14

" I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God"

Galatians 2:20

Crucifixion with Christ is judicial. When He died God saw the end of man in the flesh. All believers therefore can look hack to the cross and say in faith. “It was there I died, in the person of my substitute.” Therefore I am no longer viewed as in Adam. I am now in Christ. I am called to walk in the power of this truth, I live in Him. He lives in me. My life here in the body is to be the demonstration of Christ in me. This is my experience as I reckon myself dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. It is not that I am to try to die to the old order. I have died, and I take that place in relation to everything that is of the flesh, putting to death the deeds of the body. Practically, I die daily, as earth-claims are refused. Thus I live unto God.

Now I will glory in the cross,

For this I count the world but dross.

There I with Christ, was crucified,

His death is mine; with Him I died;

And while I live my song shall be.

No longer I, but Christ in me.

—H. A. I.