“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 .”(Gal. 2:20) THEREFORE, “I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.”(Cant. 7:10)

In the New Testament, God has not constituted Christ our Example to be copied. In other words, God is not giving us His strength to help us imitate Christ. Please don’t get me wrong. It is clear that God has not even planted Christ within us to help us to be Christ-like. Gal. 2:20 is not giving as our standard for record breaking endeavour. It is not a high aim to be aspired to through long-seeking and patient progress. No, it is not God’s aim at all, but God’s method. When Paul says, “Yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me,” he is showing us the life that gives God satisfaction in the believer, and there is no substitute. “Not I, but Christ,” means Christ instead of me. When Paul uses these words he is not claiming to have attained something his readers have not yet reached to. He is defining the Christian Life. The Christian Life is the Christ Life. God gives Christ to become my life and to live His life in me. In Wesley’s Note, it says: “I live by faith in the Son of God – I derive every moment from that supernatural principle; from a divine evidence and conviction, that he loved me, and delivered up himself for me.”

CONFESS AS FOLLOWS:
I am submitted to God and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the name of Jesus. (James 4:7)
Praise God!