{"id":25847,"date":"2015-05-16T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=25847"},"modified":"2015-05-16T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T04:18:24","slug":"this-week-galatians-220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/16\/this-week-galatians-220\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week…Galatians 2:20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/sup>I have been crucified with Christ <\/span>
\nand I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. <\/span>
\nThe life I now live in the body, <\/span>
\nI live by faith in the Son of God, <\/span>
\nWho loved me and gave Himself for me.<\/span>
\nGalatians 2:20 NIV<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week, here on the Seeking Him<\/em><\/strong><\/span> devotional blog, our sisters have reminded us again and again of this truth. \u00a0Here are a few highlights from the devotionals that Ann, Ahmee, Cynda and Tina wrote earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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In The Great Exchange<\/em>, Cynda\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>brought our attention to the truth of what Christ accomplished for us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I know<\/strong> Christ was crucified for me. But I never thought about what that really means<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  • Christ swapped places with me<\/li>\n
  • We exchanged lives<\/li>\n
  • He became the sinner, I became the sinless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Even as I type this\u2026I cannot comprehend the full impact of that statement.<\/p>\n

    What does it mean to be crucified with Christ? \u00a0Galatians 5:24 NLT puts it like this:<\/p>\n

    Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed
    \nthe passions and desires of their sinful nature
    \nto His cross and crucified them there.<\/p>\n

    Quite an exchange, isn\u2019t it? \u00a0Why would Christ sacrifice Himself in exchange for me? \u00a0Romans 8:37 NLT holds the answer \u201cNo, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.\u201d \u00a0Christ loves us and wants us to be victorious. He laid down His life in exchange for ours, so we could spend eternal life with Him. \u00a0He chose to die for me. \u00a0Now that<\/em> is amazing love<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

    \u2766<\/span><\/h1>\n

    In Living A New Life, Tina\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>shared some important points of the Apostle Paul’s (formerly Saul) conversion.<\/span><\/p>\n

    “Paul was freed from the Law. \u00a0He was freed from the rules the Pharisees had created for the Jewish people to follow, making the burden impossible for everyone to come close to God. \u00a0With Paul\u2019s conversion and baptism, he could speak to the Jews and the Gentiles with authority and eloquence. \u00a0He learned about faith. \u00a0He learned about Jesus\u2019 love for everyone, not just the Jewish people but also for the Gentiles.<\/p>\n

    I am glad Jesus recruited Paul for the Gentiles. \u00a0He is a great example of what Christ did for you and me. \u00a0He sacrificed for us His life to give us the gospel.”<\/p>\n

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    In So Wait…Who Am I Then?, Ahmee<\/span><\/strong> shared some thoughts concerning her purpose and place in God’s eyes.<\/p>\n

    “One of the first things I had to learn to do was die to myself. \u00a0This is something that has to be done daily. \u00a0I hesitated. \u00a0If I was to let go of who I had always been, then who would I be? \u00a0How could I be me and not be me at the same time? \u00a0To me this seemed impossible. God was going to change me into someone different, someone I didn\u2019t know. And the last thing I wanted to do was give up my uniqueness. \u00a0It took some time, but God showed me that he did not want to eliminate me\u2026He was proud of creating me. \u00a0What he wanted was to improve me. When you improve something, the original is there, but its been made better and that was God\u2019s plan. The angry Ahmee would be kinder, gentler Ahmee. All the while my uniqueness is still present just more Christ-like.<\/p>\n

    I was<\/strong>\u00a0then who the world made and influenced me to be. \u00a0I am<\/strong>\u00a0now who my Father says I am. \u00a0Each day I am growing and changing to be more like the person God intended me to be. \u00a0All the while I am and will always be the only Ahmee He ever has made or will make. \u00a0Why not be the best version of me?”<\/p>\n

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    And in Dying With Christ, Ann<\/span><\/strong> reminds us of our new life…Resurrection life!<\/p>\n

    “As Christians we have died to the Law as a means of salvation and now live through Christ for God. \u00a0Sin no longer has control over us.<\/p>\n

    Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,
    \nwhy, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules?
    \nColossian 2:20<\/p>\n

    As Christ was risen from the dead we also now live with Him in Resurrection life. \u00a0Christ and His Strength lives within us becoming the Source of all life and the center of all our thoughts, our words, and our deeds. \u00a0It is through the Holy Spirit that Christ\u2019s risen life is \u00a0continually communicated to us.<\/p>\n

    For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
    \nColossians 3:3″<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20 NIV *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[8842,3367,2440,1287,425,3174,7879],"class_list":["post-25847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-crucified-with-christ","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-galatians-220","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-weekly-recap","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6IT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25850,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25847\/revisions\/25850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}