I'AM NEW

We Live For Him

Recently, I've been concluding my written correspondence with the statement "We live for Him."  I'm not sure if I read that statement somewhere or if it is just something that the Lord impressed on my heart, but this is cetainly what is in my heart.  Our lives belong to God.  We live for His glory.  We were made for fellowship with Him.  We were made to reflect His image and likeness, and that understanding gives my life purpose.  What a joy to know that the God of the universe desires us.  At the same time,  I'm grieved that I so often fail to live for Him by allowing myself to get dragged away into sin.   One of my favorite bible verses is Galatians 2:20:  I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives me.  The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 

Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009 by Bruce Cote

1 comment (Add your own)

1. greg pytlik wrote:
your comments echo the verse below that has been on my mind lately--we are God's chosen witnesses and servants, what an undeserved privilege and sacred responsibility. Corresponding study notes that explain the difference between "God" and "Lord" stating "God" (Elohim) is a more general term, while "Lord," (Yahweh) refers to Him as our "covenantal and personal" God--an eternal relationship we are in only by Divine Initiative of the free and unmerited gift called "Grace." How far short I fall.

isaiah 43

10 "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD,
"and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.

11 I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.

12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—
I, and not some foreign god among you.
You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "that I am God.

November 25, 2009 @ 9:46 AM

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