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The other day in a quiet moment, my mind began drifting to thoughts of God. I was seeing in a sense the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and I became aware of their boundless, infinite love for all of their creation.
It seemed I could feel something of God’s heart, and His yearning to lift us up and have us become like Him, that we might gaze into His eyes and He into ours and share — in one another. Like what a husband who truly loves his wife may do and the wife with her husband. No barriers, no obstacles, no limitations, no focus on faults or issues of life: there simply aren’t any in the relationship!
But how could this happen with creatures having free will and bound to fall short of His glory? Well, as you know, the Son came to earth, dwelling in bodily form, Jesus Christ. Colossians 1:19 says the fullness of the godhead dwelt in Him. The Son took the punishment for everyone’s sins and transgressions, for all time – Isaiah 53:6.
Because God is a just God, our sin, rebellion, and transgressions required this punishment, and Jesus took that punishment upon Himself, even for people who refused to repent and receive their forgiveness, that all be without excuse.
But we, who have turned to Him, having made Jesus our Savior and Lord, are transformed into new creations. God actually comes to take up residency within us. He fills us – with Himself. That’s according to Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:19.
We new creations are sealed by the Holy Spirit; a down payment of what we are headed toward, of what we will fully be. It is 1 John 3:1-2 that says, “See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we ARE children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.”
What I’m saying is that God has set in motion His plan that we should be united with Him eternally. It sounds preposterous, God united with His created beings, but remember Ephesians 5:31 and 2, where Paul writes, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”
My friend, in some marvelous unfathomable way, Jesus chose to be united with His bride, the Church, you and me – and everyone who is born again. It is an eternal union, for it is God who has done the joining together.
This is beyond amazing! Meditate on it – you’ll COME ALIVE!
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