I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me!

 

 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

~Galatians 2:20

I read this Bible verse today in Galatians, it really resonated with me, quite profoundly honestly. When you follow Christ, when you pray, go to church, talk about Jesus, read the Bible, try to imitate Christ, you become crucified with Him. Because so many will persecute you, and mistreat you, ignore you, cancel you, or talk bad about you like they did to Jesus, I have witnessed this for many years now and each year gets worse as I come closer to Christ and following Him more and more. I just need to remember this hard part, He is in me! And knowing this, that He is in me, I can do it, I can get through all here on this Earthly journey. I have had a rough last few years in seeing so much human disappointment. I have been hated, cancelled, rejected, mistreated, ignored, just so much ill treatment, from work a lot of cancel culture through my retirement, from driving, with so many people cutting me off let and right, yesterday twice in a few minutes and then again today, just so many selfish irresponsible people driving today, from family, friends, and coworkers, dismissing me, ignoring me, not writing back, or putting limits and restrictions on what I can text them, whether a photo or if a message might be too long. Even at church, we go to a church where we have been ignored by the priest, we even saw him today at the gym, he ignores us, but he walked close to me today, so I did say to him, "peace be with you brother." Just trying to be more like Jesus. We see so much hypocrisy at church, people who say they are Christians and put the priest on a pedestal, but won't even look at us or give us peace, or are indifferent to us. Today we see so many with TDS, they want you to join their club of hate, but I won't so this is another factor in the crucifixion, I do not know hate, and will not join any hate club.  Yes, we are not crucified like Jesus was murdered on a tree, nailed there, but we are in some respect, by humans mistreated and hated, persecuted, rejected. It is all part of having Jesus live in you. This Bible verse is so apropos for sure! Thank God to my parents who helped me with my faith, thank God my life brought me closer to Jesus and my spouse also is a strong believer. Yes, I am so glad that Christ lives in me as I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me!