Paul stood up to Peter in front of everyone, because the gospel was being contradicted by a seating chart. Then he wrote the sentence that relocates your entire identity: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

Your old self has a death certificate. Read today like someone learning to live from the new one.

Peter's error was not doctrinal; it was a lunch table. He believed the right things and sat in the wrong seat, and Paul treated the seating chart as a gospel issue, because it was. What we practice preaches louder than what we profess.

The cure is the crucifixion Paul describes: the approval-hungry self, the one that shrinks when certain men walk in, has died with Christ. I no longer live. The life you now live runs on being loved already, by the Son who gave himself for you. People rooted there stop rearranging their seats for fear.