“You provide the fire, I will provide the sacrifice”

“I lay myself down”

“I make myself low, so you can make yourself High”

These are the kinds of things I am hearing a lot of in Christian music and media. While the heart behind what people are saying is great, I would like to say a few things…

I actually don’t know where to start so I will cut to the chase. I really wish people would be taught and understand the finished work of the cross. The Finished work of Christ. What was finished and done when He said “It is finished.”

Let me say that Christ did it all so we wouldn’t need to. He died so we didn’t need to suffer the consequences of our choices that drove us away from the father. We never drove Him away, we drove ourselves away. He was the perfect sacrifice so we didn’t need to be or make a single sacrifice. He made Himself low so that we would be raised up and never need to be made low.

God is not a vengeful sadistic egotist who requires us to humiliate and abuse ourselves in order for Him to love us. In fact, the opposite is true — He is love Himself, empowering us to live glorious, eventful, happy lives where we are elevated and raised to attention because of the life in us (Holy Spirit) given by Him. Eternally good. Eternally Loving.

We really need to stop saying silly things like that which is quoted above. We need to see Christ for what He has done and who He is. We need to see ourselves correctly because we are entirely united and filled with Him, we can’t escape it and can’t lose it because we never got it in the first place, we have nothing to do with it. There is no amount of ‘laying low’ we can do to earn anything from Him. There is no amount of sacrifice we can do to get approved, we already are!

Let’s realise how good God is, how perfectly amazing He is. How glorious He is. And then look at yourself in the mirror and greet Jesus who is in you! We are empowered, perfected, holy, righteous and united in Christ. How good is that? It can not get any better.

I will finish off with a paraphrased scripture from Colossians 2:9–11 out of the Mirror Translation:

It is in Christ that God finds an accurate and complete expression of himself, in a human body! (While the expanse cannot measure or define God, his exact likeness is displayed in human form. Jesus proves that human life is tailor-made for God!)

Jesus mirrors our completeness and endorses our true identity. He is “I am” in us. (God packaged completeness in “I am,” mirrored in you! We are not dealing with “I used to be”, or “I’m striving to be”; we are celebrating, I am”! The word, 1arche, means chief in rank. The word, exousia, is often translated as meaning authority; its components are, ek + eimi, originating out of “I am.” The days are over where our lives were dictated to under the rule of the law of performance and an inferior identity. [See Col 1:19] The full measure of everything God has in mind for man indwells him. 
 “Your own completeness is only realized in him.” — Phillips Translation.)

You were in Christ when he died which means that his death represents your true circumcision. Sin’s authority in the human body was stripped off you in him dying your death.

In the same parallel (your co-circumcision in his death) your co-burial and joint-resurrection is now demonstrated in baptism; your co-inclusion in Christ is what God’s faith knew when he powerfully raised him from the dead. (Hos 6:2)

I hope you find this helpful. Huge love!