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"It's A God Thing, Honey!"

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Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live. Yet, it is not I, but it is Christ who lives inside of me. And the life I live in this body I live by  the faith of the Son of God who loves me and gave himself for me. Looking At It All Wrong: A Confused Young Man When I was younger so much younger than today, I sometimes had a skewed view of healthy/holy spirituality. When I read this passage in Galatians 2:20,  I would view the Apostle Paul with admiration because I thought of him as such a surrendered guy that he actually believed he was crucified with Christ. I thought to myself, "WOW! Now that is a holy man." I had such a wrong view of this passage. My viewpoint was that I had to get to the state of walking so perfectly worthy with the Lord that I could one day possibly hope to be so godly that I was indeed crucified with Christ.  I felt that being crucified with Christ applied to the exceptional holy few. I