Christ lives in me.
"Christ lives in me." That is the revelation of the age. That
is the discovery of the moment. That is the revolutionizing power of God
in the earth. It is the factor that is changing the spirit of religion
in the world and the character of Christian faith. It is divine
vitalization.
The world is awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in
the heavens only, nor in the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.
The world lived in darkness for thousands of years. There was just as
much electricity in the world then as now. It is not that electricity
has just come into being. It was always here. But men have discovered
how to utilize it and bless themselves with it.
Christ's indwelling in the human heart is the mystery of mysteries. Paul
gave it the Gentiles as the supreme mystery of all the revelation of God
and the finality of all wonder he knew. "Christ in you. Christ in
you."
Christ has a purpose in you. Christ's purpose in you is to reveal
Himself to you, through you, in you. We repeat over and over that
familiar phrase, "The church, Which is His body" (Eph.
1:22-23), but if we realized the truth of it and power of it, the world
would be a different place.
When the Christian Church realizes that they are the tangible, living,
pulsating Body - flesh and bones and blood and brain of Jesus Christ -
and that God is manifesting through each one every minute, and is
endeavoring to accomplish His big will for the world through them, not
through some other body, then Christian service and responsibility will
be understood.
Jesus Christ operates through you. Man and God become united. That is
the divine secret of a real Christian life. It is the real union, the
real conscious union of man and God. There is no substitute for that
relationship. You can manufacture all the ordinances on earth, all the
symbols there ever were until you become dazed and lose yourself in the
maze of them, and still you must still find God.
There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must
contact God, and unless the spirit of ma is truly joined to God, there
is no such thing as real Christian manifestation. All the processes of
preparation, by which a soul is prepared by God for such a
manifestation, are only preliminary processes.
The final end is that man can reveal God and that God may not only have
a place of residence, but a right action in the body and spirit of man.
Every Spirit-taught man in the world is aware of how gradually his own
nature has become subjected to God and His will.
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