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 CHRIST IN YOU

People talk about being "close" to the Lord. Being close to the Lord is not a feeling, it is not modified by circumstances, it is not altered by culture. The closeness that the believer, the follower of Jesus Christ, has to the Lord is an unchangeable fact. Nothing in all creation is able to undo what God has done and is doing in a true follower of Jesus Christ. 

The awesome reality for the believer is that once they were dead, essentially, spiritually dead. To be truly alive in God now, the life within you is not your old way of being refurbished. You have been given a new life, a radically new life that God lives in you, transforming you day by day. moment by moment.

Colossians 2:11-15

"When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with Him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for He forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, He disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by His victory over them on the cross."

Jesus Christ is Who He is eternally. He never changes. In the believer, He is Life; He is Life within us. He is nearer to you than your own skin. He is Life within you. The Holy Spirit is the Resurrection Life of Jesus Christ within you.

Colossians 1:26-27

"This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to God’s people. For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing His glory."

Christ Jesus is IN you. He is Life within you. The Holy Spirit united the believer to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. You were put into His death. The Holy Spirit then united you to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, a new creation, a new spiritual DNA, a new heart and a new spirit. Your very body has become a temple of the Holy Spirit. You are not your own. You have been bought with the price of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus.

Feelings will come and go. The fact that Jesus is Life within you, that He IS your life will never change. You can rely on that as fact when you have no sense of His presence at all. You are secure in Him, by Him and through Him.



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