How to Live Crucified?
So what does this all mean? In a word: Our crucifixions ultimately happened some 2,000 years ago with Christ’s crucifixion. This means that living crucified isn’t the result of your efforts, but the result of applying Jesus’ efforts to your life today. How? It’s as Paul instructs: “Likewise, you also consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:11, MEV, emphasis added).
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The key here is the word consider—a verb meaning “to think carefully about.” This is just another phrase for the process of renewing the mind. In other words, living the crucified life is really about seeing the situations of your life through the lens of Jesus’ finished work. It’s about considering—knowing—that because of the cross, the power of sin is canceled, shame is eradicated and your past is removed.
