Crucified Hearts

Crucified Hearts, the name comes from the idea that our hearts represent what matters to us most and is the living place for our core values and beliefs. That the heart needs to be crucified and reborn is a Christian concept I live by, just as the apostle Paul describes his own spiritual experience:

“I have been crucified with Christ; 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 for me.” Galatians 2.20

I link this with another text about having the mind of Christ, what I understand as the crucified mind:

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” Philippians 2.5-8

Crucified hearts have the mind of Christ, finding themselves through union with Him in His death to sin and resurrection to life. As Jesus said, the first will be last and the last will be first. Only those who lose their lives for His sake with find their true life. 

“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6.5-11

l follow the theology of the cross. What that means and how it plays out in the coming days, in my life and in the world around me, will be the theme of this blog. I’ll get back as soon as I can. It helps if you hold me to it.