Introducing my latest print: “Co-Crucifixion (Galatians 2:20)”
CO-CRUCIFIXION (Galatians Two Twenty) by Jason Christopher Hackwith
“Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.”
Galatians 2:20 gives me hope. Hope that I am not stuck in the past. Hope that I’m not relegated to sitting on my hands, waiting for the future to become the present. Hope that I am still useful.
Note that Paul is describing a death that already happened, not one he’s waiting for. That older identity, stitched together from achievements and anxieties alike, no longer gets the last word. What rises in its place is a new life that draws its energy from a different source. Paul insists that he’s still very much alive, still walking, choosing, speaking—but his center has changed. “Christ lives in me” is startling because it’s so intimate. This isn’t mimicry or moral self-improvement; it’s communion. His daily decisions, his courage, even his ability to love are things borrowed from the One who now indwells him.
And then he brings it down from the clouds to the everyday: “the life I now live… I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” That final clause cracks open the whole verse. The engine of this new life isn’t duty or fear but a very personal love—a love that moved first, gave itself first, and abides within him. Will I dare to have the faith to actively trust Jesus to move and breathe and work through me?
It’s my sincere prayer that this print will be edifying to you and yours this Christmas season as we celebrate the birth of the one who came alongside us in our death so that we might have life.
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I designed “Co-Crucifixion” with part of the English text of the verse on the left side of the image, and the first two Greek words of the verse on the sign above the cross: συνεσταύρωμαι Χριστῷ, transliterated as “systauroō christos;” “I have been crucified [alongside] with Christ.”
