I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life 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 ESV) The implications of this passage are massive, both metaphorically and physically. Let me explain. If we are spiritually crucified with Christ on a cross, not literally because that would mean we physically would die, then everything in our souls that were manifested physically in our lives would die the moment we wholly give our lives to Jesus in the act of faith that crucifies us with Him and to Him. At that moment, what we used to be, and how we were does not matter because we would be dead. Now, if we’re dead (our prior selves before being crucified) something else must live. I say this because clearly out physical bodies are still moving and doing things, and I don’t think we are soulless beasts walking around like instinctual zombies. Then someone’s soul must be giving us the intentional queues to act and move physically– that someone is the Spirit of God. He gives us the intentions to live out in a horribly evil world, goodness. So the big question is: what happens when I don’t live up to that goodness and I allow myself to act evil or think malice? We must live believing that the evil and malice will be redeemed by God’s love for us. In essence, we are hoping that through God’s power, our lives will not be defined anything short of the God who makes His place in our hearts and is the source of our souls. Physically, we can live without the stress of guilt, for past wrongs. We can also live apart out of the shadow of who we were. Finally, we can do things with our intention being the godly agape type of love which can never be put out. As believers in Christ, we must humbly tell ourselves and the world that we are not our own.