Victory in Christ...series...chapter 3

This week we will look at chapter 3 of our book Victory in Christ. May you be blessed as I have been blessed by this book.
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He Died For Me 

Jesus Himself has told me this. He has put this assurance in my mind and heart: He "loved me, and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). My iniquity was laid upon Him. He bore my sin. He died in my place. He laid down His life for me, as if I were the only one to be redeemed. 

"That He should leave His place on high, 

And come for sinful man to die, 

You count it strange?~ So do not I, 

Since I have known my Savior. 

"Nay, had there been in all this wide, 

Wide world no other should beside, 

But only mine, then He had died, 

That He might be its Savior/ 

"Yea, living, dying, let me bring

My strength, my solace, from this spring, 

That He who lives to be my Kind, 

Once died to be my Savior." 

I have found that "it is not enough to believe about Him; you must believe in Him."  The difference may seem small- a mere change in a word- but it is viral. I can believe about Christ with my mind, but to be saved by Him. I must believe in Him with my whole heart. I am fully assured that what He has promised, He is able also to perform, and I yield myself that He may perform in me the good thing that He has promised. this is the basis of my Christian experience. 

My effort is directed, not toward doing things myself, but toward not hindering Jesus from doing. My other fear is lest I should in some way lose my personal fellowship with Him, for I know that as long as that is fully maintained, He will take care of the rest. He will work in me "both to will and to do"(Philippians 2:13), if I say to Him from the depths of my heart, "thy will be done." This is not a sentimental religion. This is not a life of selfish ease and enjoyment. This means complete devotion, and going about doing good; but it is no longer I that live, "But Christ liveth in me" (Galatians 2:20). 

And so Jesus loved me, and died for me, and saves me. He loved you and died for you. Does He save you?