I have a Bible app (youversion if you’re curious), which gives me a Bible verse of the day. I have other study plans in there, but the first thing that pops up when I open the app is that verse. Yesterdays verse was Galatians 2:20, which says, “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in the earthly body by trusting in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”. Galatians is a book in the Bible that was actually a letter written by Paul to the church of Galatia. He was chastising the church for following a false gospel and the old belief that following the laws of the Old Testament is how they get to heaven. Jesus paid the price for the Old Testament laws. He was the unblemished lamb required for the sacrifice of the sins of the world. The gospel says our belief in Jesus Christ and accepting him as our savior is how we join God in heaven. It is not through our merits because sin causes a debt we can never pay, but Jesus did with love. Galatians gave me a new perspective of the Holy Spirit because I learned more about what God sent the Holy Spirit for. It was meant to live inside of us, to move and guide us after we accept Jesus Christ into our hearts and lives. This means dying to ourselves. What Paul called for is for our old selves, the selfish sinful nature that we have, to die. Once we accept Jesus, we are free from the hold that sin had on our past selves and wiped clean. Our slate is empty, the debt is paid, we are white as snow and a completely new creation. We must die to live, and that is such a beautiful representation of what Jesus did for us. He died so we could live. Thus, we must die so he can live in us. Dying to ourselves is a choice we must make daily. We aren’t immune to sin when we are saved, but we can recognize it more than we once did. We can feel the motivation, the conviction to walk away from sin because of the Holy Spirit. Every morning, I wake up with the goal of dying to myself, and every night, I pray that God will prune anything in me that does not give glory to him. The choice is yours, dear reader. Are you willing to die to yourself for life? It’s not an easy task, I struggle every single day with temptation. Through prayer, I can make it, and with confession, I will be forgiven for it and continuously washed white as snow.