That it be He in us
(Galatians 2:20) and not we ourselves, we must appropriate three essential
principles. First is
honesty and openness
in all of our relationships, not only with Him but also with one another. By
this, we not only
remain humble and
pliable in His hands, but we also be vessels of His love to be poured out
through us unto others.
Second is to ever
give the Lord Christ Jesus in us full centrality. "Seek the Lord while He
may be found ..." (Isaiah
55:6). Where may He
be found? In us, that we be vessels or containers of Him Himself. He in us
should be ever in
our thoughts and
attention. And third, that we continually experience the flow of grace through
us; that we not offer
Him resistance. The
"anointing" on us as He ministers through us is at whatever level He
knows is needed for the
moment, and hence
reflects the state at the moment of the heart(s) of the receiver(s) of the
ministry. But the flow of
that anointing
depends upon how pure we are, as His pipes or channels for that flow. God is
ever seeking for a people
(Isaiah 6:8) to
stand in the gap between Him and our fellow men. Only such people as these can
He send and use.
The end result of
our being love-slaves, voluntarily ever giving up our freedom in order to
become fully what He
wills, is adoption.
Romans 8:15 uses the Greek word Uiothesia, that means to be fully established
as recognized and
responsible agents
(of God on Earth). Established unto what? To be fellow heirs with Christ (vs
17), that we glorify
Him. To glorify Him:
to make Him manifest in this physical space-time world. To fill the entire
earth with His
Presence. That the
"Lord shall arise upon us, and His glory shall be seen upon us"
(Isaiah 60:2). That is His Intention
for us now: that we
present Him, in His fullness, to this world.
That all things be
summed up, culminated in, centered around, Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:8-10,
19-23)! That every thing,
in Heaven and on Earth, has meaning and purpose only as related to Christ Jesus our Lord, our Head, our All in All.
in Heaven and on Earth, has meaning and purpose only as related to Christ Jesus our Lord, our Head, our All in All.
