All tagged crucified

On the Cross with Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, On The Cross

We are about to enter into Holy Week, and during this week we live and are crucified with Christ during His final days. We follow Him through the joy of His arrival in Jerusalem, eat the last supper with Him, suffer through His anguish at Gethsemane, experience the capture, trial, and scourging of our Lord, and then we join Him on the cross for His crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension. Yes, over the course of this week we will have been crucified with Jesus... not in the physical sense of dying, but spiritually. Our crucifixion is such that our old selves die and our new lives in Christ come alive. Paul explains this to the Galatians in this scripture:

On the Cross with Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Crucified With Jesus

We have completed Holy Week, and during this week we lived and were spiritually crucified with Christ during His final days. We followed Him through the joy of His arrival in Jerusalem, to the last supper, His anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane, the capture, trial, and scourging of our Lord, and then we join Him in spirit on the cross for His crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension.

Can We Straddle Heaven and Hell?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Boasting of Worldly Treasure

There is nothing in the world that we should boast of because in Christ we are no longer its citizens; we are aliens in a strange and foreign country. We are like the thief who, crucified alongside Jesus, was made new by his faith, and dined thereafter in paradise. We are new creatures in Jesus, having been crucified to the world, even as it has been crucified to us. Today we are weary travelers in a distant land who long for the familiar sight of home, and the true joy, and comfort, that awaits us there.

Have we been crucified with Christ?

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Crucified with Christ

When we think of being crucified with Jesus, just where do we envision ourselves in that process? Are we entering Jerusalem, praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, being taken before the high priest, standing before Pilot, receiving a beating at the hands of the guards, being scourged and cut by the whip, stumbling under the weight of the cross as we walk the Via Dolorosa, crying out in pain as the nails are driven through us, hanging above the crowd as our life ebbs away, or have we taken our last breath, are we laying in the tomb, being resurrected, speaking once again to our disciples, or ascending into heaven? What does being crucified with Christ mean to us?