UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN US
Text: Gal 4:19-21
19 ¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.21 ¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
The first assignment of the word of God is to change our inside.Many times we are so engrossed with the desire for what we want God to do for us that we undermine what God wants to do in us.The reason God sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins is to restore the relationship of love that Adam lost in the garden of Eden.Our fellowships are the fellowship of people that are in a loving relationship with their father. Our uniqueness binds us together.That is why the world cannot measure our values because our values are not what we possess.Our values are Christ. The world do not have what it take to know our relevance.That is why the persecute Christians.The Christ in us cannot be quantified with any measurement unit invented by any man.Our values are immeasurable.
Until Christ is formed in a man he does not have any value on earth no matter how much he has in the bank or his political position in any country.This is the reason why we should be borne again.The extent we know Christ determines the level of His glory we manifest.To manifest the glory of God means to manifest Christ.To manifest Christ is to manifest the word of God.Our earnest desires on earth should be to manifest the glory of God our Father to our generation.What we manifest is what is in us.If we feed our minds with the things that feeds our flesh (carnal nature) we manifest carnality.Until Christ be formed in us.we will keep holding on to our carnal living as it were with the Galatians church.Christ is formed in our heats through the word of God.This happens when we allow the word of God to permeate our inner being.At this point the word of God rules every of our action even in trials and temptations. Jas 1:2 ¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. It takes Christ in a man to produce joy in times of temptations.It take the dominance of the word of God in a man to have joy in temptation times.This is one of the reasons why we should develop in Christ.We should grow in Him because temptation MUST come.
The way out of the challenges of this life is in Christ and Christ is the word of God.
To be continued
Prayer
Oh God help us to pant for your word so that we grow in Christ i Jesus name.
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