If Christ gave you life ...

Your life depends on your relationship with God. Separated from Him, you can do nothing. Christ gives you a new past and a new future. Your past was left on the cross, your future is eternity with Christ. Before being in Christ, Paul based his identity on his successes… everything that was gain for me, now I consider it loss for Christ's sake. (Phil 3.7). Living under this precept is not only wise, but also fundamental.

If you are already in Christ and you keep clinging to your past, your life will be miserable. Everything is new now, even you. Do not think about your mistakes anymore, Christ erased them. As God has made you a new creation taking from the DNA of his son Christ, live the Christian life with joy and gratitude to the Lord. You are complete. Your spiritual life is everything. Your relationship with God will define the quality of your marriage, your parenthood, and your love for others. Although the enemy of God and the world will insist on reminding you again and again, you are no longer a thief or a liar; not even an adulterer or a murderer. The devil takes care of putting labels on you, God takes them off. The enemy reminds you of your humanity, God your spirituality. In your spirit is your identity: Son of God. No one can take it from you, or erase it from the Book of life.

If you are in Christ, you must show that truly, in all circumstances, the past was a loss. Loss of life, of time, of blessing. Christians who live in the present from their past have not yet experienced God's love. God has given us a new identity in Christ; therefore I no longer have to mold myself to the world to seek success. My success resides in my new identity, which is to be a child of God through the merits of Christ on the cross. "And even more, I count all things as loss in view of the incomparable value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord" (Phil 3.8).

Knowing Christ gives life. "And this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17.3).

Those words still echo in my ears: "Do you feel that you need Christ in your life?" My heart said yes, my mind said no. Man is a mentalist by nature and hides his emotions. My - Yes! -, it came from my heart. And although the heart is deceitful, this time it was not deceiving me. God says: "People look at appearances, but I look at heart" (1 Samuel 16.7). Your spirit came alive (it was dead), when God put his Spirit in you. That is why you are spiritual, a vessel molded by the hands of God, although it has not yet finished its work in you. As long as you are on this side of eternity, you will be fragile and inconsistent, but do not forget that Christ conquered the world and that affliction is yet another proof of his incomparable love.

Live for Christ by remaining in Him. The devil tries to pigeonhole you for what you do, God loves you for who you are and nothing and no one will separate you from his love (Romans 8.38)

God bless you!