God and My Life
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 (ESV)
Many Christians live their faith as one department of their life — a Sunday morning, a prayer at night, a separate moral compartment. But Paul does not describe that. He describes a life traversed — where Christ does not just visit, but dwells. Your professional life, your relationships, your body, the way you handle a conflict or a hard day: nothing is excluded from this presence.
This does not ask you to become religious in everything — it asks you to let yourself be inhabited in everything. What you do, you can do with Him; what you carry, you can carry with Him. Your whole life is the place where He now lives.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3 (ESV)
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV)
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Romans 14:8 (ESV)