Never Alone

Where is Christ to be found? When we receive Christ, He comes to live inside us. This means the place He is found is within us. God becomes very near, very close. He becomes our constant companion, never leaving our side. He is within us in the hardest moments of life. Loneliness begins to lose its power. We are never alone. We are never unloved. He lives inside us, loving us, speaking to us, and walking with us as our closest friend and constant companion. Never alone becomes the theme of our lives. Never alone again. This becomes our world,…

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One Spirit with Christ

Jesus became flesh and blood so that He could dwell among us, so that He, God, could become one spirit with us. God’s ultimate purpose was not merely for us to believe in Jesus, nor simply to take us to heaven someday, but to make us one spirit with Him now. The Bible says that the one who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. For this union to be possible, Jesus had to become flesh and blood. He also had to die to a selfish life and surrender everything to the Father. This is the nature…

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Fusion

Christianity is not merely accepting Jesus or believing in Him, even though that is true. It is far greater than that. It is allowing Jesus to come inside us and fuse His divine life with ours. We become one with Him, and His divine life forms an entirely new person within us. We see this transformation happen again and again. Jesus described it as being born anew, from above. Divine joy, divine peace, and divine love become the hallmarks of this new nature, and our restless, thirsty souls finally find a home. This is enormous. The God of the universe…

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Lift Your Vision Higher

Jesus gives the soul the environment it needs to thrive. The human soul must have a higher vision in order to flourish. A vision limited to this temporal world is not enough. The soul needs eternal hope, eternal life, and friendship with God. It needs the presence of God. To truly thrive, the soul must be immersed in the eternal. It cannot survive on the temporal alone. It cannot thrive on materialism, money, entertainment, pleasure, or possessions. These things are too shallow to lift the soul. There is a song I really like titled “Lift Your Vision Higher.” For the…

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Union with Christ

There is something so vast, so immense, so far above everything else. It is a connection with God that eclipses all other realities. Jesus spoke often about this connection we can have with Him. He used words like, “I am the vine, and you are the branches.” He described an organic relationship, where life flows from the vine into the branches. A living connection where life flows from Jesus into us. At other times, He spoke of living inside us, bringing with Him divine life, divine energy, and eternal substance. This life and energy He brings cannot be found anywhere…

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