GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 10

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

          JESUS, YOU……GIVE ME WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING—Prov. 2:6

           JESUS, YOU……MAKE ME DWELL AND REMAIN IN THE LAND—Prov 2:21

         JESUS, YOU……  SHIELD ME AND PRESERVE MY WAY —Prov 2:7&8

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Colossians 1:19-20

 “For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,  and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.”

We are finishing chapter 10 today in Andrew Murray’s classic and beloved book, “Abide in Christ”

We are taught to believe:  through God you are in Christ as your redemption.  This is not meant as a revelation to be left to the future; for the full development of the Christian life, our present abiding in Christ must seek to enter into and appropriate it.  We do this as we learn to triumph over death.  We do it as we learn to look upon Christ as the Lord of our body, claiming its entire consecration, securing even here, if faith will claim it, victory over the terrible dominion sin has had in the body.  

We do this as we learn to look on all nature as part of the kingdom of Christ, destined, even though it be through a baptism of fire, to partake in His redemption.  We do it as we allow the powers of the coming world to possess us and to lift our views, to anticipate, even here, the things that have never entered into the heart of man to conceive.

1 Corinthians 2:9:

“But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Believer, abide in Christ as your redemption.  Let this be the crown of your Christian life.  Seek it not first or only, apart from the knowledge of Christ in His other relations.  But seek it truly as that to which they are meant to lead you.  Abide in Christ as your redemption.  Nothing will fit you for this but faithfulness in the previous steps of the Christian life.  Abide in Him as your wisdom, the perfect revelation of all that God is and has for you.  Follow His teaching with meek docility in the daily ordering of the inner and the outer life, and you will be counted worthy to have secrets revealed to you that are a sealed book to most disciples.

The wisdom will lead you into the mysteries of complete redemption.  Abide in Him as your righteousness, and dwell clothed with Him as your righteousness in that inner sanctuary of the Father’s favor and presence to which His righteousness gives you access.

As you rejoice in your reconciliation, you will understand how it includes all things, and how they too wait the full redemption.

“For it pleased the Father….by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself:  by Him, I say , whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” Colossians 1:19-20

And abide in Him as your sanctification; the experience of His power to make you holy — spirit, soul and body, will quicken your faith in a holiness that will not cease its work until the bells of the horses and every pot in Jerusalem will be holiness to the Lord:

Zechariah 14:20: “In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.”

Abide in Him as your redemption, and live, even here, as the heir of the future glory.  As you seek to experience in yourself the power of His saving grace to the full, your heart will be enlarged to realize the position man has been destined to occupy in the universe, as having all things made subject to Him, (Christ) and you will, for your part, be fitted to live worthy of that high and heavenly calling.

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