God and His Christ cannot find rest and pleasure in a self-willed, unholy adamic personality (Ephesians 3:16-19; 4:24), or in the adamic personality at all! Only Christ is the dwelling place of God. It is only as Christ is formed in us that the Persons of God and Christ will come and make Their abode in us.

This, then, is the design. God dwells in Christ. In the same manner, Jesus dwells in us. Since God is in Jesus, and Jesus is in us, then both God and Jesus are dwelling in us. The Scripture states this fact clearly.

Such is the climax of the Christian discipline, a plan and goal far greater than the human mind can conceive, worthy of God Almighty, and worked out altogether in and through the Lord's everlasting love toward us.

Christ in you is the goal toward which the Christian discipleship leads and also is the means by which the goal is attained. Jesus is the Way to the truth and the life, as well as the Truth and the Life.

Christ in you is a phrase that can be stated simply and understood easily. It can be understood easily in a general sense, not including all the intricate details of the manner in which God brings about this experience in the believer's life.

Although we will be setting forth a description of some of the factors involved in the creating of Christ in us, an understanding of them is not sufficient to enable us to bring about the abiding of Christ in us. It is the Holy Spirit of God who, like Eliezer of Damascus, brings the Bride to the Son and Heir (Genesis, Chapter 24).

A young Christian starts out joyously on a shining highway, commencing his or her pilgrimage to the land of promise. After a season of happiness and confidence, the new disciple may find himself groping and stumbling through a desolate wilderness.

At this point of trouble and uncertainty the goal of Christ in you may seem far off and unrelated to the numerous and varied burdens that now must be borne. The joyous Gospel walk has turned into a struggle through a swamp of doubts and frustrations.

If the Christian does not give up and turn back he begins to learn the many lessons that God teaches in the wilderness. The path begins to be visible again from time to time. Christ in you develops from a mental concept into a personal experience of Divine Life.

It is not God's intention that the Scriptures be used only as the basis for a confession of doctrinal belief. Rather, the Scriptures are the Divine testimony that can bring us to a personal experience of Christ in us. It is God who is working in us both to give the desire for, and also to bring about the accomplishment of, His will concerning us (Philippians 2:13).

Christ in us is the fullness of resurrection life and glory. The power of the Father brings us from Egypt (which symbolizes bondage to the world spirit, to Satan, and to our fleshly nature) all the way to the land of Canaan (which typifies the complete redemption of our spirit, soul, and body, the full abiding in us of the Presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and spiritual rulership over the material creation). Canaan is resurrection ground.

(from What Comes After Pentecost?)