If we want to begin to operate our lives from the unseen and eternal realm, we have to put ourselves on the shelf. We get ourselves out of the way simply by believing this: that we are not a liability to God. We are his precious assets, through whom He expresses his love.
God's goal is to take us from external to internal, from looking for life in the world, the body, or the soul to experiencing true life in the union of our spirit with God's spirit. He is weaning us from trying to find life "out there" to knowing that it is Christ living in us.
God did not intend for humanity to live with a sin-consciousness, but with a God-consciousness. He doesn't intend for us to live with a self-consciousness, but with a Christ-in-us consciousness.
Has anyone ever spent years or decades strenuously trying to make himself a better Christian, and concluded, "This is the abundant life Jesus promised!" The Christian life is not about trying harder. It's about receiving more by faith everything God freely gives us in Christ.
"We will never know abundant life until the unseen and the eternal realm is home to us in our everyday experience. Until then, we will be living according to appearances, and appearances will never lead us deeper into the life of God. Only faith will." #theRestoftheGospel
If of Christ's fullness we have all received (John 1:16), why are we so tempted to try to get more of Him? Maybe God wants us to rest in the reality that we already have all of Him, and He lives in us, through us (Gal. 2:20).
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