The Steward's Life Begins at the Cross

"Were You There When They Crucified My Lord" goes the song.  Well, according to the Scriptures, I was!

As that reality grows within my consciousness, I am able to process the shedding  of the chains of the world 's values and thinking.  One begins to let go of all that the world holds dear and knows the freedom of living in the eternal truths.  In fact, eternity is already within and not one thing that my inner man needs can I get from this world.  Therefore, I have freedom to walk away from the ownership of my life and live in the power of ZOE, the life force of God called eternal life in the Scriptures.

 "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet, not I, but Christ lives in me:  and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and gave himself for me."
 Gal. 2:20

"Know you not, that so many of us that were baptized, were baptized into his death...knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin"
 Rom 6

The Steward Spirit resides within the Lord and is released into us "when we are born again from "being dead in trespasses and sin." " Now we are to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God  Rom 6:11  Until the Steward reorganizes her thinking along these lines, the self-life hovers and protects itself.  What is crazy about this is that the self-life doesn't even know that it has been crucified with Christ.

As you go through the Lenten week with Christ, can you imagine that you were on that cross and all the self life you have lived was crucified along with Him....dead and buried?  Can you imagine that you, also, are already alive with resurrection life that has power to cancel everything that rears its ugly head?  As that happens, one can live freely the life of the Steward.