Christ never reveals Himself apart from or separate from us – this
truth is overwhelming me! He isn’t ‘out there somewhere,’ He has
always been IN! He always and ever and only reveals Himself WITHIN us,
as part of us, as the deepest part of who we are, the source and life
and fabric of our very being!! God with us, God in us, God as us! I
don’t have to get close to Him, find Him, look for Him, or move toward
Him – He’s in me and in all people already.
God put a thought in my heart that Jesus is inside each and every
person, just waiting to be discovered by them! It is like discovering
the life-long friend and soul-mate you’ve always wanted lives right in
your own home already, right in your own body-tent! It is like
discovering that all you’ve ever wanted to be you already are – as He
is, so are we – filled with God’s presence, overflowing with the Spirit
without measure, honored, loved and adored by God, a pleasure and
delight to God, a light to others, a lover, AT REST, fully qualified and
prepared for anything in life! Wow!
We are divine ones in a way I can’t grasp, Jesus-inside people! In
the words of a favorite author of mine, Dan Stone, ‘you are already all
you were meant to be: one with the One who is Life.’ One with God, that
describes a human being, doesn’t it? A meshing of God and a person, a
tangible being who is the expression of God’s thought, God’s logos,
Christ Himself. In some amazing way I can’t quite grasp I am a ‘little
Christ!’ The incarnation continues – just as HE was with Christ, so HE
is with me!
I am not lacking, don’t need to try to be more spiritual or more
committed or more yielded, don’t need to ask for more wattage or dosage
of the Holy Spirit, don’t need to surrender more or struggle to focus on
Him, don’t need to get to another level or beg for a bigger blessing or
anointing. I already AM rich, full, complete, adequate and prepared
for every good work, for everything!
I love way the Mirror has 1 Cor. 1:7:
“You don’t lack anything – you are fully qualified. You have every
reason to expect the Lord Jesus Christ to be made visible through you.”
Wow! God naturally acts like Himself, God naturally lives, manifests
His true nature, loves others, overflows with kindness and goodness,
flows with divine vibrancy, uplifts others – and that is Who is flowing
through me! God doesn’t need my help to be Himself! Haha!
I keep thinking of a quote I read on facebook somewhere: “God will
manifest your new creation life in you without your help.” Without my
help! To me, that describes God’s way in me, that is ALL GRACE – it’s
without my help, not needing my input or initiation to make it ‘go,’
totally spontaneously flowing from God, natural and EASY! We truly can
sit back and enjoy the ride, just watching God flow! I can fully expect
Him to manifest in me without my help, without my doing anything! It
is as natural as breathing, as easy as pie! I love this new way of
looking at the Christian life – it makes everything so natural and real
and truly EASY!
The incarnation is me, is you, is everyone – we all discover that
Christ is in us, God with us, IN US, and He’s been there all along! We
discover that simply who we are as humans, not something unnatural
that’s been added at some point but is foreign to us – no, this is who
we are, we are God-men, we are divinity in earthsuits, we are heaven on
earth, we are a union relationship between God and flesh people, we are
the expressions of God in this space and time realm, little gods, in His
image and likeness, each of us unique and individually beautiful
personal expressions of Papa Himself, like a beautiful kaleidoscope,
like a wonderful work of art, or as Andre says, His poem!
I am a love poem God writes to the world and I have something very
meaningful and valuable to share with this world just by being me! How
hard is it to be myself? It’s so easy! I always thought the Christian
life was denying my own dreams and desires and thoughts and even my own
personality (which is really very introverted and quiet, more disposed
to long solitary walks in the woods than being in a crowd)…yet the
Christ life that is in me, as me, is all about me being ME! God
wouldn’t have it any other way, He’s made me perfectly, just the way I
am, with all my personality quirks, as a PERFECT expression of Him in
“His Sparrow form” – yes! I glorify God by being myself. He naturally
shines through without my having to do a thing.
All of life becomes a spiritual experience! All of life becomes
saturated with God and with grace! All of life becomes His expression
of LOVE to the world! When people see me they really do see Him! When I
touch them, He really touches them! He is living through me, as me,
without my help, simply by me being ME! Wow! The incarnation
continues!
