This should be the declaration of every true child of God. No longer are we independent, feeding from the tree of our evaluation of what is good and evil. No, we now live in Him, our very life drawn from Him. We depend on the provision of the cross: freedom from slavery so we can now live an obedient life empowered by God. The cross offers a completely new way of life. As Paul declares in a different letter, “As Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk