The Trail · Step 11 · The Exchanged Life
Crucified with Christ
What if the truest thing about you is not your effort or your failure, but that you already died — and Someone else now lives in you?
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Everything the trail walked through Scripture now walks through you. This is where the shadow becomes your own life — and some of us are still living as if the old self is merely wounded. It is not wounded. It is dead.
"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
Co-crucified — not "Christ was crucified, and I admire that." I was crucified with Him. The person I used to be — the one who sourced life from himself, who covered himself with fig leaves of self-effort — was nailed to the cross with Jesus and died there.
"We know that our old self was crucified with Him... For one who has died has been set free from sin." — Romans 6:6–7
And co-raised: your life is now hidden with Christ in God — not visible to the world, not dependent on circumstances, not threatened by anything. You are not a sinner trying to become a saint. The old has actually ended; the new has actually begun.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." — 2 Corinthians 5:17
A prayer
I have been crucified with Christ. The me that tried, the me that failed, is hidden in the One who reigns. I no longer live — Christ lives in me. Not a metaphor, not a theory — this is what the Lamb has bought. The life I live, I live by faith in the Son who loved me.
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The Exchanged Life
- The old self is not wounded; it is dead. Am I still trying to improve a man God has already crucified?
- I am not the source, I am not the stream — I am the vessel of His name. Can I let that be enough?