"I am crucified with Christ." Thus the apostle expressed his assurance of his fellowship with Christ in his sufferings and death and his full participation in all the power and the blessing of that death. And, showing he did truly mean what he said and knew that he was now indeed dead, he added, "Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." How blessed must be the experience of such a union with the Lord Jesus! To be able to look upon His death as mine, just as truly as it was His - upon His perfect obedience to God, His victory over sin, and complete deliverance from its power as mine; and to realize that the power of that death does, by faith, work daily with a divine energy in mortifying the flesh and renewing the whole life into the perfect conformity to the resurrection life of Jesus!"
-Andrew Murray, from Abide in Christ
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