Being in Christ, Him Being in Me
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Daily Inspiration!!
"But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him," reads 1 Corinthians 6:17. I run my hand along the beams over my loft bed, wood hewn by a handseveral hundred years ago. I can hear Him. He's calling for a response; He's calling for oneness. Communion.
Jesus says there is no other way to take up the faith but complete union: "Iam in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you" (John 14:20). I am stilled. I think on being in Christ and Him being in me and He is wind whisperer and I am leaf and He stirs and Itremble: "Remain in me, and I will remain in you" (John 15:4). He's calling me to graft on, become one with the True Vine, the vine the biblical symbol of joy, festivity ... fullness. He'scalling to come and celebrate being made one, and in Him, by Him, to bear the fruit of the full life round.I see it clear ... there is no real reality, no full life, outside of therelationship with Love, because God Himself wraps Himself eternally in relationship: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit existing in relationship, an encircling dance ofcommunion sweetest. God is love —everywhere! everything! — and He can only be love because He exists in triune relationship. Before I ever breathed or the earth ever spun, the love within theGodhead orbited, Father loving Son "before the creation of the world" (John 17:24.) and whenI am in union with Christ, I too am
lavished with the love the Father has for the Son. Inunion, that love is mine — ours! I can't simply ignore His serenade because I'm unsure, uncomfortable, uninterested, thinking I've claimed Christ as my Savior already anyways. God isrelationship and He woos us to relationship and there is nothing with God if there is no relationship.
-One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, by Ann Voskamp
"But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him," reads 1 Corinthians 6:17. I run my hand along the beams over my loft bed, wood hewn by a handseveral hundred years ago. I can hear Him. He's calling for a response; He's calling for oneness. Communion.
Jesus says there is no other way to take up the faith but complete union: "Iam in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you" (John 14:20). I am stilled. I think on being in Christ and Him being in me and He is wind whisperer and I am leaf and He stirs and Itremble: "Remain in me, and I will remain in you" (John 15:4). He's calling me to graft on, become one with the True Vine, the vine the biblical symbol of joy, festivity ... fullness. He'scalling to come and celebrate being made one, and in Him, by Him, to bear the fruit of the full life round.I see it clear ... there is no real reality, no full life, outside of therelationship with Love, because God Himself wraps Himself eternally in relationship: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit existing in relationship, an encircling dance ofcommunion sweetest. God is love —everywhere! everything! — and He can only be love because He exists in triune relationship. Before I ever breathed or the earth ever spun, the love within theGodhead orbited, Father loving Son "before the creation of the world" (John 17:24.) and whenI am in union with Christ, I too am
lavished with the love the Father has for the Son. Inunion, that love is mine — ours! I can't simply ignore His serenade because I'm unsure, uncomfortable, uninterested, thinking I've claimed Christ as my Savior already anyways. God isrelationship and He woos us to relationship and there is nothing with God if there is no relationship.
-One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, by Ann Voskamp
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