When the first-century world wanted someone put be to death in the most open, dependable and confirmable fashion, they would crucify them. That was certain to drain every bit of life out of their bodies. Isn’t it interesting, then, that the Bible uses that very same term to describe how a Christian, who has been “called out darkness” (1 Pet. 2:9), is to relate to the ungodly world? A child of God must be able to say, “the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal. 6:14). That is only possible when “those who are Christ’s” (you and me) have done what is necessary to “have crucified the flesh with its passion and desires” (Gal. 5:24).
Fellow Christian, let me ask you—have you crucified the world to yourself? Have you taken the necessary steps to drain every bit of life out of the world’s stranglehold on you? Or is it still alive to you? Sometimes we allow the world (with its passions and desires) to keep a little place in our lives, but when we do, it has the freedom to revive at any time and take control. Friends, let’s nail each ungodly passion of the world to a cross…once and for all!