"Things of Old" -2

"How Thou didst drive out the heathen with Thy hand, and plantedst them; how Thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out." (Psalms 44:2) I believe the key word within this verse is the word "Didst", as in the past, because God has done this, therefore it is something that we are no longer waiting to happen, it has already taken place. I think sometimes we forget, or get convinced otherwise, or we have just lost faith; whatever it is that has happened, it is not anything to do with God, because He has already done what He needed to do. Our faith is based primarily upon the word of God: God said it, I believe it, and that settles it; however, it is also based upon the Spirit of God within us, as He confirms what has been done within us; this is based mostly on the peace that we have been given, but the greatest result is our peace with God. I have been focused for so many years with trying to crucify the old man, when all the while, he has already been taken care of at the cross of Christ! We tend to imagine within ourselves that this is something that is up to us to do, as if I need to somehow nail myself up upon that cross; when it was Christ who died in my place, over 2,000 years ago; if I am in Christ now, then I was in Him then, when He died upon the cross; how simple is that? The reasoning behind what was done at the cross goes beyond reasoning, but at the same time, it is so simplistic. Why would God go through all the pain and suffering of dying for our sins, yet leave the thing that produces sin, namely our old fallen nature, still undone and very much alive, just to keep on producing sin? Ya, but I can't seem to shake this old dude; he just won't stay down! Therein is most of our problem, it is something we keep thinking that we need to do; as if God has not already taken care of it, so I need to go find that dead corpse and beat it to death with a stick. What's been done is done, so we need to get over ourselves, and start walking in the victory that has been given to us..."Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:6-11)