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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One With God, #8
This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. (Ezekiel 1:16—NIV)
The Lord Jesus has come to His Church in the spiritual fulfillment of the last three feasts of Israel. The seventh and climactic feast is the feast of Tabernacles, portraying our dwelling in Christ who is dwelling in God, and God dwelling in Christ who is dwelling in us. This is the wheel in the wheel that Ezekiel mentions.
I can't speak for you but I am not greatly impressed with myself. So I am delighted at the thought that I can become an integral part of Jesus Christ just as He is an integral part of God.
Now I have significance. Now I have eternal life. Now I can fulfill the Divine fiat: to be in God's image; to be the "female" joined for eternity to the great Male; to be fruitful, bringing forth people in the image of Christ; and to have dominion over all the works of God's hands.
When Christ has been formed in us, and the Father and the Son through the Spirit have made us Their eternal home, and we do nothing apart from Them, do you suppose the theologians of the future will have a problem concerning the Godhead? Interesting question, especially when the name of God, of the new Jerusalem, and Christ have been engraved on us.
Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us." Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father'?" (John 14:8,9—NIV)
Christ is not saying here that He is the Father. Rather it is true that the words Christ spoke, the things He did, were spoken and performed by the Father who is dwelling in Him.
The truth of the matter is that we do not really know what Jesus is like, because He gave Himself to the Father that the Father's will might be done in the earth. The miracles were performed by the Father. The Sermon on the Mount was spoken by the Father.
Don't you believe I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. (John 14:10—NIV)
Jesus did not claim to be the Father. Jesus told the truth: He always is in the Father and the Father always is in Him. It was the Father who came to earth in Christ in order to reconcile the world to Himself. This is what the Bible teaches.
Jesus Christ has come to us today to work with us until we can be with Him where He is—that is, in the Father.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. (John 14:11—NIV)
To be continued.