Love Christ, Let Him Make His Home in Us
The Christian life is a mutual indwelling of the Triune God and His people. This is what we pursue today and what we will experience and appreciate in full in New Jerusalem.
The Triune God is now abiding in us, so we have been rooted into Him. While we are rooted into Him, the Father works to strengthen us through God the Spirit so that God the Son, Christ, may make His home deep down in our heart, which is composed of our mind (Heb. 4:12), will (Acts 11:23), emotion (John 16:6, 22), and conscience (Heb. 10:22)….Since we began to pray that God the Father would strengthen us into the inner man, Christ gradually began to occupy our mind, take over our emotion and will, and possess our entire conscience.*
Christ is working to make home in our hearts. From our side we should apply the Lord’s words in Mark 12:30, “you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.”
New Jerusalem is “the bride, the wife of the Lamb” (Rev. 21:9). This relationship is of love and causes much rejoicing. Today, and in New Jerusalem, we declare, individually and together, Lord Jesus, we praise You and we love You!
* From chapter 39, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
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Posted by Don on July 26, 2023
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