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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Indwelling of Christ and God, #2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. (Isaiah 12:2—NIV)
The marriage to Christ, the possession of God Himself, is the goal of spiritual growth. The feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled when God and Christ make Their eternal abode in the heart of the Christian believer.
It is the Father's good pleasure that each Christian live in Christ and the Father, and that Christ and the Father live in each Christian. Each of us is to be the expression of Christ's Personality and will. We are to be totally dependent on Christ, our whole life moving with and in the pure flowing of the Substance and power of the living and absolutely holy and Divine Son of God.
Christ lives in the Father and the Father lives in Him. He was and is the Expression of the Father's Personality and will. Christ is totally dependent on the Father, His whole being moving in and with the pure flowing of the Substance and power of Almighty God.
Several verses in the Gospel of John give us some understanding of the perfection and completeness of the manner in which Jesus is at rest in the center of God's Being and will:
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (John 1:18)
Note that the present tense ("is") applies to the Lord Jesus whether He is in Heaven or on the earth. He is the great "I Am." Jesus forever is in the bosom of the Father. In like manner we are to be forever in Christ.
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. (John 5:19)
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. (John 5:30)
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. (John 6:57)
In the preceding verse, John 6:57, we begin to perceive that Jesus intends for us to be in the center of His Being in the same manner and to the same extent He is at rest in the center of His Father's Being.
Jesus is so completely one with the Father He could state:
. . . Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. (John 8:19)
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:10)
It is a fact that God the Father lives in Christ and Christ abides in the Father. But there is more to this revelation. It also is a fact that the rest of God (Hebrews 4:1) is fulfilled when we Christians find our individual places in the fullness of Christ and God.
To be continued.