God's
desire for every Believer is to conform us into the image of His first born
Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29). He adopts every Born Again Believer into His
family as His beloved children (Colossians 1:27). We are co-heirs with Jesus,
and we inherit with Him the entire Kingdom of our Father God (Romans 8:17).
God's
Spirit sanctifies us from one stage of glory to the next until we are conformed
to the image of Christ in us (2 Corinthians 3:18). We must choose to cooperate
with this transformation, because it is a voluntary exercise that calls on us
to submit to God's individual will for each of us.
This
allows us to humbly seek God's plan for each moment of our day. The Holy Spirit
reveals God's will to us, and He gives us understanding of all of God's ways.
He empowers us to live righteously by changing our desires from carnal to spiritual
(Philippians 2:12-13).
He
also gives us knowledge of His Word, which is healing to our body, and provides
life to our bones (Proverbs 3:8, 22; 4:22). His Light comes from His life
within us (John 1:4). We mature spiritually and our intimacy with Him increases,
as we desire more of Him and less of this world.
Seeking
Him with all of our heart enables us to discover that He is ready, willing and
able to give us the victory over all things. God gave us a free will to choose
the steps we take into His holiness as a way of life for us. His plans for our
life are so much better than ours.
We
can fast-track this process as we daily submit to His perfect desires for us
(Ephesians 2:10). As His life forms in us, we walk in peace and joy through
every trial (2 Corinthians 13:5). Jesus left this earth, forty days after His
resurrection from the tomb, so that He could send His Holy Spirit to fill each
of us (John 14:16,26; 16:7).
He
is the Spirit of truth, and He helps us to understand that Christ now abides in
us, just as the Father was in Him, which means that we are also in Him (John
14:20, 17:23). He is our hope of living in glory with God's Trinity for all of eternity
(Colossians 1:27).
Prayer:
Father
God, thank You that Jesus is our life (Colossians 3:3-4; John 14:6). Remind us
that we know that Christ lives in us when we recognize that the Holy Spirit
moved into our spirit. We are not the person that we used to be, because You
continually change our heart and desires (1 Corinthians 6:19; 2 Corinthians
13:5; Romans 8:9, 16; John 14:17; 2 Timothy 1:14; James 4:5). The presence of
Your Spirit works in us to perfect us, even as You are perfect (Ephesians 3:20;
Philippians 2:13; Colossians 1:29).
We
only have true life when Christ abides within us (1 John 5:12). We are born
again by Your Spirit (John 3:3-7). We appreciate You for our salvation, and we
enjoy the intimacy of Your presence in us. Thank You that Your Spirit in us even
gives life to our mortal body (Romans 8:10-11), and eradicates the spirit of
error and disobedience by giving us Your Spirit of truth (1 Corinthians
2:11-12; 1 John 4:6).
Thought
for the Day:
God
gave us Christ in us to redeem us, and to regenerate a spiritual exchange
within our spirit, which was once dead in sin; we turn from the darkness of the
dominion of Satan to the Light of life in God's service by submission to Him,
and He gives us the righteousness of Christ in exchange for our sin nature.
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Acts 26:18; Romans
