02/28/2018
Do you dwell on who Jesus Christ is? When asked about Him do you tell of what He did, how He redeemed you, and taught you things like loving your neighbor as yourself? These things are all true, but do you also tell them that He is the jar that holds the essence of your life, the container in which you dwell? Do you reveal to them that He has so changed you that He has become engrained in your very DNA; so completely intertwined that to extract Him would certainly destroy you? If you can tell them this, then your faith has become the fullness of Christ, and you are no longer about Christ, but in Him.
“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 KJV
There is no part of the believer that Jesus does not touch and perfect. He is more than the cloak we wear, and the voice we speak, His is the blood that runs through us, and the bread within our stomachs.
“He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”
John 6:56 KJV
He carries God’s life throughout us, and sustains us for His is the blood of life, and the food of eternity itself. Jesus Is God’s agent of spiritual conversion that through His perfection we would become perfect.
“This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.”
John 6:50, 57 KJV
So once consumed, Jesus becomes more than He who redeemed me, I no longer exist except that He is in me, and I within Him. He has become the jar that contains me, the vessel that was set aside, made holy, for the purpose of completing the wine that is me. I have no form save His, no hope except that which He gives me, and without Him I am spilt upon the ground and become as nothing. But, in Him I have become the perfect wine on the table of God... the sweet scent and taste that pleases the Great I Am. The endless pleasure of God’s own child.
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”
Romans 8:17 KJV
At that time it is completed in us, “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” We have become that which sings of God’s glory, and indeed a full portion of the Glory of God itself. So when asked about Jesus, tell of those things that Jesus did and taught, but more so tell of what He has done in you, and you have become in Him.
Prayer:
Father, thank you for your Son Jesus Christ who lived, died, was resurrected, and ascended into heaven that I might be forgiven of sin, and made perfect before you in Him. I thank you not only for those things He has done, and is, but for what He has made me. I thank you for the changes to my very being, spirit, and soul that dwelling in Him has brought, and for the eternity that lies ahead with you. How amazing are you Father, and how endless is your Grace, and Glory. It is true Holy Father that... “when we’ve been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, there will be no fewer days to sing [your] praise than when we first begun.” I long for that first day, and all those that follow as I worship you in spirit and truth... singing praise to you, and glorifying your name. You are mighty, yet you treat me with such gentleness. You are bold but your touch so soft. You voice causes mountains to tremble, and yet it soothes my soul... how great are you in all of these things and more. As your love for me is manifest your Glory is revealed, and I worship and praise you all the more... my love for you sprouts wings and soars for you are my Father and in your house I am content.
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”
Psalms 23:6 KJV
Rich Forbes