Crucified With Christ

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

(Galatians 2:20)

Each true believer boasts, “In the LORD have I righteousness...” (Isaiah 45:24) and knocks at Heaven’s gate with the unanswerable plea. In Christ, my Law-fulfilling Surety, I bring the righteousness of God. Great was the loss in Adam but far greater is the gain in Christ.

So too, as a common person, He hangs upon the cross. In Him His people suffer unto death. In Him they exhaust the cup of wrath. In Him they taste the bitter pains, which sin deserved. In Him they pay the uttermost farthing into the scales of justice. In Him they endure until each attribute of God requires no more. Thus, each child of Faith exclaims, with adoring praise: “I am crucified with Christ.” Who can lay anything to the charge of one who, in Christ, is discharged of all? In Adam we merited wrath, in Christ’s death we underwent it.