Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations.

To start the week off right, the phrase we're going to be meditating on is Christ lives in me.

We are more than flesh and bone. We are spiritual beings made in the image of God.

And this is a powerful fact, not to be overlooked or overshadowed,

but in order to know our divine identity, we must first know deeply who God is. We must also

understand the depths of the sacrifice that he made for us undeserving sinners. When Jesus was

crucified, that was the ultimate sacrifice, the perfect exchange,

and he gave himself up as the unblemished lamb, a flawless sacrifice to atone for the sins of

all mankind. And because of this trade, every person is offered the gift of redemption and

everlasting life. Christ died a very real death to conquer

sin once and for all and to make available a second chance life symbolically and also literally

to every soul. Jesus is the Son of God and the one and only way.

If you believe this and accept Christ as your Savior and ask for forgiveness for your sins,

then you are a new creation.

And when Jesus hung on the cross, God didn't just see Jesus.

He saw you.

He saw me.

God wiped our slate clean. He removed our old life and put new life in us, and that new life is Christ

who lives in us. We are bought by the blood of the Lamb, Christ Jesus, and that purchase isn't just a changed life. It's an exchanged life. As Galatians chapter 2 verse 20 says, I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. Resurrection requires both life and loss.

And if you're alive in Christ, then your old self is gone. You are dead to sin, and your old ways and the heart that

beats in your chest beats for God. When Jesus conquered the grave, it was the ultimate

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