Living For No Other Than Jesus!

Philippians 1:21 - "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."

For Paul, life outside of Christ had ceased to exist. Every breath, every movement of his day was an orchestrated love affair with the Man, Christ Jesus. This is the story of any Christian since this beloved apostle who exudes Christ -- the death of self and the life of Jesus that escapes from every pore and corpuscle of the human frame.

Paul was not saying something clever when he announced to the Corinthians that he died daily (I Corinthians 15:31). It was his love statement that he was so committed to his Lover that he dared not do anything that would offend.

If we desire our walk with Christ to become a romance, then we must first acknowledge it is not. Then, we must ask Jesus to draw near and obey His slightest desire. Then, we will know the life Paul speaks of regarding the Savior.