March 3, 2020
Galatians 2:20
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.
New International Version (NIV)
                Cruciform.  Have you heard that term? Architects sometimes use this as the design for places of worship.  If you looked at the building from above it is built in the shape of a cross.  The nave is the long portion of the worship center and the transcepts provide the cross beam.  Our new worship center is built in the form of a Greek cross with equal length and width.

                Cruciform.  Once Paul met Christ on the road to Damascus he was changed.  Again and again in this letter to the Galatians he returns to the cross.  Paul was so identified with Christ as a disciple that he took the cross as the pattern for his life.  “I have been crucified with Christ.”  Paul with all of his pride and all of his sin was crucified with Christ when he became a believer.  “I no longer live.”  That part of his life was dead but he had been raised to a new life with Christ.  “But Christ lives in me.”  Now Paul lived by faith in the Son of God who loved him and gave himself for him.

                Cruciform.  As we pray and devote ourselves to Christ in these forty days leading up to Good Friday and Easter, we experience the transforming power of the cross.  As we die to ourselves daily, we are raised to a new life in Christ.  A. W. Tozer said three things are true of those who are crucified with Christ:  we are facing one direction, we are not looking back and we no longer have any plans of our own.
Pray with me:       
Father, if we boast today let it be in the cross of Jesus Christ by which we have been crucified to the world and the world to us.  We no longer conform to the world because you are transforming us by renewing our minds.  As we live our lives for you, may your plans become our plans, we pray in Jesus name.  Amen.    
Join us in memorizing the Word.  Scripture for this week:    
Matthew 5:19-20
Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Our 2020 Every Day with Jesus readings will follow the Foundations New Testament reading plan.  Copies of the reading plan are available at Tallowood Baptist Church, or download your copy at REPLICATE.ORG 
We would love for you to join us as we read the New Testament through this year, five chapters a week.  In addition I will continue my long-standing practice of reading one Psalm a day through the year.  Use Robby Gallaty’s H. E. A. R. plan to study each chapter (also found at REPLICATE.ORG). Highlight verses which speak to you, explain what they mean in your own words in a journal, apply them to your own life, then respond by doing what God tells you to do.  
Joyfully, 
Duane 
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