We are Christians. We try to make Christ a part of our lives. We try to imitate Him and include Him in our lives. When things go wrong we are quick to call on Him. Why? Because we are Christians and that's what we do. "You and me, Lord, You and me."
Except that's not what we are called to do. We are called to die to self, to take up our cross, to surrender all. We are to be new creations with the old passed away. We are designed to be filled with the Holy Spirit. He isn't supposed to be our pal; He's supposed to be our life.
"Jesus and me" should not be a thing. He's not an add-on. We're supposed to submit to Him. He should be our primary aim, our primary target, our primary purpose. We are living this life in order to be shaped in His image and not merely to "get through with the help of God."
The Christian life is not "Jesus and me." It is an exchanged life. My sin for His righteousness. My sinfulness for His Spirit. My hate for His love. Paul said that our hope is "Christ in you." "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me" (Gal 2:20). All creation is from Him, through Him, and to Him (Rom 11:36), including you and me.
We may need to rethink our ideas of "Jesus and me."
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together dying, together living, together loving each other.
Jesus and me, there is no other embodiment. on the surface it appears that you made a clear cut distinction between Jesus and Me. but it is without a difference. if i die for Christ, i die by the power of Christ, if i die to the flesh, it is only because i live to Christ. i now share in the divine nature by the power of the one that empowers me. I do not exist apart from Christ. i do not exercise my gifts for Christ apart from Christ. since i do exist in him; it is always Jesus and Me.
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