There are two testimonies that the Christian can have. The first is, “Christ was crucified for me.” The second is, “I am crucified with Christ.” In the first, I see what Christ has done for me in His great redeeming work. In the second, I see what Christ is doing in me to shape me like Him. This is full identification with my Lord and His dying. This is a real dying to the old that will bring about a real living to the new.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20 (NASB)
From, “Staying on the Way”, by H. Lamar Smith.
