Romans 8:9-11: “But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” [HCSB]
Oh, what a promise we have in that verse … because we belong to Christ Jesus our LORD, the Spirit of Christ is in us and that Spirit is life! Add that to the promise found in Colossians 2:9 and we should live every day in amazing promise! “In Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form, and we have been given fullness in Christ.” [HCSB]
All the fullness of God the Father is in Christ Jesus. All the fullness of the Spirit of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit is in us.
Understanding the depths of all this is beyond me. I praise God that we are indwelt by the Spirit of God. I thank Him that He inhabits not just the praises of His people, but His people. I stand every day in the promise of “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” [Col 1:27]
Still, I do not understand how this has all happened. These great truths, that we have been given fullness in Christ, and that we have the Spirit of Christ, are truths that cannot be fully grasped with our finite minds. (After all, these truths were birthed in the Heart of the Infinite.)
These truths must be experienced in our spirits. I Corinthians 2 makes it clear that God reveals these deep truths to our spirit by His Spirit. Otherwise, we could not even imagine asking for them.
What a glorious God we serve, He gives us so much more than we can ask or imagine.
Thank you, LORD! Amen.
