Life in Christ

Because of the fall of man, people have been living their life separated from God and just learning to live their life accordingly; outside of the daily presence, connection, and knowledge of God. People have learned to cope with life and have developed thoughts, beliefs, patterns, behaviors, etc. over the ages. When one comes to know God and understands who He is and what he has done through Jesus, and comes to Jesus submitting their life to Him as Lord, they are said to be "born again" or given new life and are now reconnected to the Father. The old ways of living apart from God are no longer needed, reconciliation has come and we can know truth and live in that truth.

What happens a lot of times though is that people take God and try placing Him into their ways of living, their world view, their life thoughts, patterns, beliefs, behaviors, etc. that they have established through life experiences and teaching apart from being with God. When instead what I believe we are called to do at salvation is to shred off our lives, our everything; strip down and lay it ALL at the cross and build anew on the foundation of Christ the living word, and God's written word the Bible. We should start over with God's world view becoming our own and then proceed from there building our life in Christ. We shouldn't be trying to fit God into our lives, He should BE our life; everything we are, do, think, act, etc stems from Him and His ways. It is no longer our life, it is His. "For whoever wants to find his life must lose it" (Matt. 16:25) and "to live is Christ" (Phil. 1:21) and "it is no longer me but Christ in me" (Gal. 2:20).