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Exchange Your Life!!!

Did you know that the Christian life is an exchanged life? Jesus' life for your life. When you give Christ control of your life, your life will take on dimensions you would never have known apart from Him.

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20

When we are weak, Christ demonstrates His strength in our life. When we face situations that are beyond our comprehension, we have only to ask, and the infinite wisdom of God is available to us. When we are faced with humanly impossible situations, God does the impossible. When we encounter people we find difficult to love, God expresses His unconditional love through us. When we are at a loss as to what we should pray for someone else, His Spirit will guide us in our prayer life. When Christ take up residence in the life of a believer, "All the fullness of God" is available to that believer!

It is awesomely freeing to know that God controls your life and knows what it can become! Instead of constantly worrying about what we will face, as many of us do, our challenge should be to continually release every area of our life to God's control. The temptation will be to try to d by ourselves only what God can do.

Friends, our assignment is to "abide in the vine" and to allow God to do in and through us what only He can do. Remember, only God can be God! Allow God to live out His divine life through you. He is the only One who can. It takes discipline, but once you give control of you life over to Christ completely, you will start to enjoy the abundant life He has in store for us all!

May God richly bless you today!! H Trent!

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