Weekly Musing

Something To Think About

“We don’t “give our lives to Christ” to get saved — that’s the old religious script that makes salvation sound like a trade, a deal, or an offer God is waiting for us to accept.

The gospel flips it completely.

We don’t give Him life…

He already gave us His life.

Salvation isn’t you handing something over.

Salvation is you waking up to what was true before you ever knew His name:

Christ is your life. (Colossians 3:4)

We don’t offer ourselves so He’ll accept us — we awaken to the fact we were included in His death, His resurrection, His fullness, His righteousness, His union.

Giving your life to Christ makes it sound like you initiate.

But the gospel is: “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.”

You’re not initiating anything — you’re waking up to what He already finished.

So if we’re being precise:

Religion says: Give your life to Jesus so you can get life.

Jesus says: “I came that you may have life” — already given, already yours.

Paul says: You were made alive together with Christ — before you ever believed.

Faith is not the transaction — faith is the awakening.

So no, we don’t “give Him our life” to make something true.

We awaken to the life He already shared with us from the cross to the resurrection.

We don’t surrender to earn.

We surrender the illusion that we were ever separate.”

Written by Michael Kuehl