Weekly Devotional - Samantha Mosca
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 NIV
This past Sunday, during baptism, something in me paused.
Not just a passing thought… but a deep, quiet pull to sit with God and really ask myself,
Where am I right now? Am I in this for me… or for Him?
It’s a question I can’t just ask once and move on from. It’s a question I need daily.
In fact, it’s the question that starts my mornings.
And I can feel it changing me… stretching me… growing me in ways I didn’t expect.
In leaps and bounds and I’ll take it!
Because when I sit with that question, it brings me right back to truth:
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.That sounds powerful… but it’s also deeply personal.
It shows up in my everyday life…
as a wife, a friend, a co-worker, a daughter, a fellow churchgoer.
In the middle of conversations.
In the middle of interruptions.
In the middle of moments that don’t go the way I planned.
I keep a small sticky note on my monitor screen that says,
“Be beautifully interruptible.”
It’s not just a phrase… it’s a posture.
Because if I’m living for Him, then my day isn’t fully mine to control.
It means being willing to pause.
To listen.
To love when it’s inconvenient.
To respond differently than my old patterns would lead me to. (I call those my 5 year old patterns)
Jesus calls us all into this kind of life.
In Matthew 16:24, we are told to deny ourselves and take up our cross.
And on the cross, in Psalm 22, echoed again in Matthew 27:46, we hear His words: Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?”
Even in that moment… He stayed surrendered.
That kind of surrender humbles me.
Because I still wrestle.
I still have moments where I lean toward what I want instead of what He wants.
But I’m learning.
I’m learning that I don’t have to be perfect…because I already am a creation formed by a perfect God, being refined by His grace daily.
C.H. Spurgeon said,
“Seek to believe the promises better than you have done thus far.”
That speaks right to my heart.
Because belief isn’t just something I hold onto in good moments…it’s something I choose in the middle of the messy ones too.
Like Abraham, I want to believe even when I don’t see the full picture.
To trust the One who is leading me.
Because Jesus is the only role model I will follow without question.
And if He is truly living in me…then my life should reflect His light.
Not hidden.
Not dimmed.
Not covered.
A light is meant to shine… to guide… to point others toward something greater.
So in my everyday, imperfect, growing life…that’s my prayer.
That people wouldn’t just see me…but that they would see Him shining through me.
I’ll leave you with this thought…..and ask yourself honestly… are you living today for what you want, or for what He wants?
-Sam Mosca
This past Sunday, during baptism, something in me paused.
Not just a passing thought… but a deep, quiet pull to sit with God and really ask myself,
Where am I right now? Am I in this for me… or for Him?
It’s a question I can’t just ask once and move on from. It’s a question I need daily.
In fact, it’s the question that starts my mornings.
And I can feel it changing me… stretching me… growing me in ways I didn’t expect.
In leaps and bounds and I’ll take it!
Because when I sit with that question, it brings me right back to truth:
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.That sounds powerful… but it’s also deeply personal.
It shows up in my everyday life…
as a wife, a friend, a co-worker, a daughter, a fellow churchgoer.
In the middle of conversations.
In the middle of interruptions.
In the middle of moments that don’t go the way I planned.
I keep a small sticky note on my monitor screen that says,
“Be beautifully interruptible.”
It’s not just a phrase… it’s a posture.
Because if I’m living for Him, then my day isn’t fully mine to control.
It means being willing to pause.
To listen.
To love when it’s inconvenient.
To respond differently than my old patterns would lead me to. (I call those my 5 year old patterns)
Jesus calls us all into this kind of life.
In Matthew 16:24, we are told to deny ourselves and take up our cross.
And on the cross, in Psalm 22, echoed again in Matthew 27:46, we hear His words: Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani? “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?”
Even in that moment… He stayed surrendered.
That kind of surrender humbles me.
Because I still wrestle.
I still have moments where I lean toward what I want instead of what He wants.
But I’m learning.
I’m learning that I don’t have to be perfect…because I already am a creation formed by a perfect God, being refined by His grace daily.
C.H. Spurgeon said,
“Seek to believe the promises better than you have done thus far.”
That speaks right to my heart.
Because belief isn’t just something I hold onto in good moments…it’s something I choose in the middle of the messy ones too.
Like Abraham, I want to believe even when I don’t see the full picture.
To trust the One who is leading me.
Because Jesus is the only role model I will follow without question.
And if He is truly living in me…then my life should reflect His light.
Not hidden.
Not dimmed.
Not covered.
A light is meant to shine… to guide… to point others toward something greater.
So in my everyday, imperfect, growing life…that’s my prayer.
That people wouldn’t just see me…but that they would see Him shining through me.
I’ll leave you with this thought…..and ask yourself honestly… are you living today for what you want, or for what He wants?
-Sam Mosca
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