Dear ones, the more I “chew” on TAS’s word that “Abiding In Christ means that we get everything from Him”, the more helpful it becomes. "Chewing" on this word makes me more and more aware of a deep need to bring all situations to Him in order to seek Him for His leading, His speaking, His strengthening. Of course, most of the time when I stop and bring a situation to Him, it seems that the heavens are ”as brass” and no direct answer comes. That is OK - the very act of stopping my own doing and seeking His face is what is important. After all, “We walk by faith and not by sight”. Surely our dear Lord uses the stopping of ourselves and the seeking of Him to keep us living in Him as much as possible.
TAS relates all the great themes of the NT to this matter of our being in God and our living in God:
- The meaning of Christ’s Crucifixion? That Christ willingly went out from the presence of God to save all those who were separated from God and who had no life in God.
- The result of Christ’s resurrection? That we have been brought into God.
- Our current position and standing as believers? In God.
- How to carry on our Christian walk today? Live not in ourselves, but live in God.
- The reason we have received the indwelling Spirit as the anointing? To teach us what it means to live in God, i.e. to make us understand what is in God and what is not in God.