"And the blessed creatures that shall be in heaven with Him without end, He will have them like to Himself in all things. And to be like our Lord perfectly, it is our very salvation and our full bliss."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 77)
Salvation is a word that carries the meaning of rescue, wholeness, safety, and well-being. Christ came to bring us from death to life, defeating and removing all that was not truly us and revealing and liberating all that is truly us. Christ brought us up with Him into His resurrection life where Christ Himself is our life. We have the mind of Christ, we partake of His nature, we bear the fruit of His Spirit, all because we are one with Christ, our humanity forever joined to Him. Christ has made us just like Him, for we are one with Him and all that He is and has is ours in that union. Christ is righteous so we are righteous. Christ is pure so we are pure. Christ is loving so we are loving. Christ is good so we are good. Christ is whole so we are whole. Christ is full of joy and peace so we are full of joy and peace. We were created with Christ's nature, and now His salvation means that nature is expressed in every way through every part of humanity. Nothing can hinder His life from being expressed in us. The children of God come into their own and display the life they were always meant to display, God's own life! We were always meant to express the divine nature and have the fruit of God's own life coming forth from us in love, kindness, joy, goodness, peace and faithfulness. We are saved, made well and whole in every way, saturated with Christ's life - this will be our happiness forever. So we don't need to accept or align with any thoughts or voices that tell us we are sinful, bad, inferior, lacking or shameful. We can align our thoughts with God's thoughts about us, that we are just like Christ and thus we are good and holy, beautiful, whole and complete and honorable. We can see ourselves from heaven's perspective. We can see ourselves in Christ and one with Christ and therefore like Him in all things, full and lovely and perfect!
"Christ's resurrection is your resurrection too. This is why we are to yearn for all that is above, for that's where Christ sits enthroned....Yes, feast on all the treasures of the heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with heavenly realities, and not with the distractions of the natural realm. Your crucifixion with Christ has severed the tie to this life, and now your true life is hidden away in God in Christ. And as Christ himself is seen for who he really is, who you really are will also be revealed, for you are now one with him in his glory!"
Colossians 3:1-4 (TPT)
A Prayer: I am who I am in You, Christ!