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Verse twenty is one of the most well-known verses in all of Christianity, but do we ever take a moment to really ponder the meaning behind it?

How have our old selves been crucified with Christ?

Legally, God looks at us as if we had died with Christ. Because our sins died with him, we are no longer condemned. We have become one with Christ, and his experiences become ours. Our Christian life began when, in unity with him, we died to our own life. In a our daily walk with God, we must regularly crucify our sinful desires that keep us from following Christ.

Yet the focus of Christianity is not based on dying, but living. Because we have been crucified with Christ, we have also been raised with him.

Legally, we have been reconciled with God and are free to grow into Christ’s likeness. In our daily life, we have Christ’s resurrection power as we continue to fight sin. We are no longer and never alone, for Christ lives in us- he is our power for living and our hope for the future.

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