I have come to realize the greatest sign, wonder, or miracle
I will ever witness is my own transformation into what God has purposed me to
be -- a holy vessel fit and willing for the Master’s use -- a vessel exhibiting the DNA of our Savior -- “For this is the will of God, your sanctification.” Herein also lays the
greatest battles, the greatest tests, and the greatest deception. Cheap Grace
tells me I am -- instantly upon accepting the Father’s call to salvation -- a
new creation conformed into Christlikeness, when I have but begun the journey
into Him. I want to so empty myself of Self that nothing remains but a common
ordinary vessel manifesting the Christ-Life. I want to truly no longer live so
that Christ can live in me, as the scriptures declare. The new creation when
fully manifested is a Person within a person, living out His Life within that
person – Christ in me, my only hope of eternal glory.
Only death and submission brings renewal and life in The Spirit, for “the world must be crucified to me, and I to the world.” And how the Holy Spirit manifests “Christ in me” matters not in the least -- be it in the mundane things of everyday life or the miraculous... it matters not -- as long as “the works of God are revealed in me” and I submit myself fully to His Lordship... His divine plan. John the Baptist said, “He (Christ) must increase, but I must decrease.” The Apostle Paul said it this way: “Even though our outward man (Self) is perishing, yet our inward man (the implanted Christ-life) is being renewed day by day”, referring to “the sufferings of this present time” (earth life) as “light affliction” bringing “eternal glory.” In a spiritual sense this is true for every saint: “I” – my old fleshly nature, Self -- must decrease that the divine implanted nature of Christ may increase and flow forth from my inner most being as a river of living water – the Holy Spirit manifesting Christ in me... through me... to the world.
Our life on planet earth is supposed to be about Light and Salt! I have found such comfort -- such peace and rest -- and such strengthening of faith since I refocused my desires from experiencing the miraculous mountain-moving power of God to simply becoming what God wants me to be... a vessel that can be filled with the Life of His Beloved Son. I much prefer that other vessels be chosen to manifest the miraculous lest I allow attention to be drawn from the Glorious One unto me -- one who falls far too short of God’s glory.
Only death and submission brings renewal and life in The Spirit, for “the world must be crucified to me, and I to the world.” And how the Holy Spirit manifests “Christ in me” matters not in the least -- be it in the mundane things of everyday life or the miraculous... it matters not -- as long as “the works of God are revealed in me” and I submit myself fully to His Lordship... His divine plan. John the Baptist said, “He (Christ) must increase, but I must decrease.” The Apostle Paul said it this way: “Even though our outward man (Self) is perishing, yet our inward man (the implanted Christ-life) is being renewed day by day”, referring to “the sufferings of this present time” (earth life) as “light affliction” bringing “eternal glory.” In a spiritual sense this is true for every saint: “I” – my old fleshly nature, Self -- must decrease that the divine implanted nature of Christ may increase and flow forth from my inner most being as a river of living water – the Holy Spirit manifesting Christ in me... through me... to the world.
Our life on planet earth is supposed to be about Light and Salt! I have found such comfort -- such peace and rest -- and such strengthening of faith since I refocused my desires from experiencing the miraculous mountain-moving power of God to simply becoming what God wants me to be... a vessel that can be filled with the Life of His Beloved Son. I much prefer that other vessels be chosen to manifest the miraculous lest I allow attention to be drawn from the Glorious One unto me -- one who falls far too short of God’s glory.
CHRIST IN ME
(2 Cor. 4:16-17, 5:17; Rom. 8:18, 29; Gal. 2:20; Col.
1:27; Jn. 9:3; 1 Thess. 4:3)
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