Day twenty one

I have been awake since 2am. I had 2 hours sleep last night. Pain is tiring, but hard to sleep through. But it’s Sunday and as I was supposed to be preaching at the Church in Loddon this morning I thought I would write something about what I probably would have said. I was asked to preach on Galatians 2: 20. The last two times I was there I was asked to preach on a particular topic or passage. This time it was a verse: “it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

It would have been a good talk. And maybe when/if I get back there to preach again, it will be a good talk.

But for now: it is no longer I who live. January 1980 was when I committed my life to Jesus. I can’t say that has been true every day, but it has been the underlying basis of my life. It is Christ who lives in me. Even when I’m ill. And I am living by faith in him, because He loved me and gave himself for me. So how can I lose?

If I live, I live to him and if I die, I die in him. It’s a win-win situation.

I can’t imagine what it’s like for people facing a potential cancer diagnosis if the life they live is not lived in relationship with Jesus.

Even in the midst of pain and lying awake in bed in pain I know that I am not alone in this. He is living in me, experiencing this pain with me.

Whatever his purpose in allowing this - and I may never know what that is - I know He hasn’t abandoned me because it is no longer I who live but Christ is living in me.

Worth pondering!!