Colossians 3:1 – “Christ’s resurrection is your resurrection, too.”

In Christ, we are God’s reservoirs of wisdom and spiritual understanding.  Paul’s prayer should be our goal and realized condition.

We are enabled to walk (live) in the ways of righteousness.  That lifestyle and condition transform us into fruit-bearing branches.   That enables us to yield to His life.   If we yield to His life, we do not yield to our fleshly desires.  

We are to grow into spiritual maturity through knowing God.   Too often, what we call knowing God is knowing about God.   The knowing off which we speak is knowing in Him in His fullness.   As we know, Him in His fullness, His power is unleashed in our lives.  Paul’s words – “energized with all His explosive power from the realm of His magnificent glory, filling with great hope.”

If we know Him and are filled with Him, that is evidenced (biblically) in a manifestation of His power, love, grace, and purity in us.   In Christ, we have no past.   The Cross made it extinct.   Colossians 3:1 – “Christ’s resurrection is your resurrection, too.”   In Him, we are transformed, and new longings fill us.   If we are still filled with fleshly longings, we need to go back to the Cross.

Our part is to fill our consciousness with heavenly realities, not earthly things.   A reminder and liberating truth is found in Colossians 3:3 – “Your crucifixion with Christ severed the tie to this life, and now your true life is hidden away in God in Christ.”   In verse 10, we realize that we are New Creations continually being renewed into the likeness of the One who created us.  

But there is more.   Here, we have the promise and revelation that the Holy Spirit is “Giving you the full revelation of God.” In this new creation life, Jesus lives “in” us.  If He lives in us and we are powerless, that is a contradiction.  He is not powerless!  He is not overcome by carnal thoughts or actions!  He is what He makes us Totally Victorious!

Therefore, our heart’s cry is to know Him and become One with Him so that His life and our lives are indistinguishable.   He cannot live “in” us and not be Who He Is.    Therefore, if He is “in” us, we become Who He is.

The questions are “Who are we?  Who is He?  Is He manifested in us?  It is either or not both.”    We are “in” Him or “in” the world.   We manifest Him or the world.   It is a process, but there must also be progress.   As we die to self, we live to and in Him.

It is either time to go to the Cross for cleansing or into the world in ministry.   Our hearts tell us which.  Jesus in us will all be Jesus through us.

Have a wonderful day manifesting Him and being Fruit Bearing Branches!