Chambers' text found here in the original English, and here in the modern English.

The Scripture passage for today is Galatians 2:20: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

     The more we give up, the more we get in return.  Jesus promises us a continuous transaction  of forgiveness and redemption, beginning the moment we accept Him as Savior.  Every sin we confess; every dark corner of our hearts or tempers or souls we acknowledge gets blitzed with laser-like redemption, burning off the old and replacing it with new.  

     Chambers calls this "The Relinquished Life” and it would be a shame to title it anything else.  What Jesus asks from us is complete honesty…the kind of honesty we all wish we could have with each other and CAN have with Him.  When we accept Jesus, He turns our sins into righteousness…only the sins we hold onto secretly remain to do their corrupting work, so the more completely candid we are with Jesus about ourselves, the more complete will be the washing our souls pass through.

     Let’s be clear here, though.  When we accept Jesus, ALL of our sins are forgiven.  He doesn’t pick some to forgive and others to carry a grudge about.  So it isn’t that we’re not forgiven for the sins we don’t turn over to Him; we are.  But any sin we don’t turn over to Him is like a bad apple in the barrel, continuing its spoiling influence. 

     Jesus wants us to completely open our heart to Him, so He can completely cleanse and re-make that heart.  This is the true meaning of "born again”, "washed in the Blood”, ”new creature”, "new man or new woman”,  all those terms which the culture smirks at but which still hold supernatural power for believers. 

     Sanctification isn’t about trying harder, it’s about moving closer to Jesus and bathing our sins in His redemptive forgiveness.

So-Whats for Work:  The best managers of people I know are those who have been touched by the forgiveness and patience of others. The best of the best of those managers have always been committed Christians. 

So-Whats for Home:  The best families I know are those whose parents have been touched by forgiving and patient parents themselves. The best of the best of those families have always been committed Christians.

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