I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” Galatians 2:20
“These words mean the breaking of my own independence with my own hand and surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to the point three-hundred and sixty-five times a year, but he cannot put me through it. It means breaking the husk of my individual independence of God, and the emancipating of my personality into the oneness with himself, not for my own ideas, but for absolute loyalty to Jesus. There is no possibility of dispute when once I am there. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ.” - Oswald Chambers
Where do my loyalties lie? This is a question of the depth of my surrender to Christ. One obstacle, among many, is what does loyalty to Christ really look like. Is it defending or opposing certain things? Is it the use of certain phrases and the abhorrence of cultural trends? Is loyalty to Christ aligning myself with a certain leader or group? The real problem is those are all the wrong questions. Loyalty to Christ is much more pointed and central than those other things. Loyalty is surrender, surrender is loyalty. It means bowing low at the cross and identifying with Christ, then letting go from there. Real independence, freedom is found in the freeing dependence on our relationship with God. There is sin in the areas of our lives where Christ wants to live, they have to go and He will come.