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. (Galatians 2:19,20 — Holman Christian Standard Bible)
This is what real belief in God entails. It’s extreme, and it’s very different from many people’s idea of following God. Paul could say he had been crucified with Christ and that he no longer lived, but Christ lived in him. If we could only have the same attitude, our lives would be great.
The old us has to stop living. If a person is unwilling to do this, he or she is not ready to be a Christian. We use the word “Christian” in a very loose way many times. Often what is meant is simply that a person has an intellectual belief in the facts of Jesus' life. But that is not what a Christian is — the first sentence of today’s passage explains what being a Christian truly means.
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