Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.” NAS Galatians 2:20
I don’t think any of us Christians can really comprehend what this first phrase means for us. The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 5 that we were all born into Adam’s family, and therefore each of us is born with a human nature infected by sin. This translates to us emerging from the womb thinking we are the center of the universe and that everything revolves around us. We are utterly selfish from the moment we breathe air. We do not need to be taught to sin, we do it naturally. It’s not until we realize how completely depraved we are that we will seek God’s solution to our selfish, sinful nature. God chose to use Jesus to make a way for us to be set free from ourselves through the cross. In Ephesians 1, Paul tells us that believers were chosen to be ‘in Christ’ from the foundations of the world. It may seem hard to comprehend, but because God chose outside the realm of time for us to be ‘in Christ’, inside the realm of time, we were ‘in Christ’ when He hung on the cross and when He arose from the dead. We, sinners, were crucified with Christ and raised saints ‘in Christ’ at His resurrection. Only God could possibly make this happen! What an amazing Redeemer He is!