Our
spirit was once dead in sin, lost and incomplete (Ephesians 2:1, 5). We
rejected the truth of God’s Word, because it sounded like nonsense to us. We
had no way to understand these truths, because they were spiritually discerned
(1 Corinthians 2:14).
After
Salvation, our spirit is alive and our carnal humanity is dead and hidden with
Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). We set our hope on the living Lord within us,
because the Spirit of life gives us His righteous (John 14:6; Romans 8:10).
Our Salvation
unites us with Christ in an eternal union that will never end. It opens up for
us a whole new world. Neither death nor judgment will break this everlasting
tie.
Now, it is up to us to surrender our life totally to God’s will, so that Christ is revealed through us to the world in which we live. This is our turning point. Then, we reap the victorious, joyful, righteous life of Christ in us rather than our former place of our lowly sinful nature.
The
authentic Born Again Believer lives in Christ, who is our life (Philippians
1:21; Colossians 3:4). The Holy Spirit conforms our soul’s nature to possess
all of Christ’s character.
God
perfects us in Christ (Colossians 2:9-10). Our world sees the reality of Christ
through our life as He dwells in our spirit and is formed in our soul through sanctification
(John 17:23, 26; Colossians 1:27; Galatians 4:19).
Prayer:
Lord
Jesus, we were once lost in sin and degradation, squandering our natural
resources and bound up with making a living and finding fleeting, temporal success.
Then, You came and transformed us from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom
of Your glorious life.
You
came to bring us abundant life both now and in eternity. We find peace, joy and
fulfillment that do not depend on this physical world. We look forward to
eternity with You in Heaven. We have perpetual, everlasting life in Your Son (1 John 5:11-12; Romans
6:23).
Thought
for the Day:
Jesus lives,
moves and has His being in and through us (1 John 5:5); and we live, move and
have our existence in Him (Acts 17:28); we are renewed and holy; but more than
that, God actually lives through Christ in us.
