»How it must hurt His heart when we are so unwise; when we do so many foolish things. When His Wisdom is at our call, His Ability awaits us, we are almost limitless. All that He is at our disposal, but sometimes we choose a road that leads to heartaches and disappointments. You see, it is this forming of Christ within us. That is the secret that is the genius of the New Creation. Wherefore, if any man is in Christ, there is a New Creation. It is perfect as far as it has gone, but He wants to build Himself more fully into that New Creation, and so He takes the things of Christ that are unveiled to us in the Word, and the Spirit builds them into us. We admired the strength and courage of Jesus in His earth walk. We were thrilled at the ability that Christ manifested as He met every difficult situation. His Wisdom, gentleness and forbearance we admired, and now the Spirit wants to take all of those things that we have admired in Jesus and build them into us. Cant you see what it means? It is the Fathers ambition to make us successful and to enable us to enjoy the riches that belong to us. I dont know whether you have noticed it or not, but in one of the prayer Scriptures in John 16:23, 24, Jesus said this: And in that day ye shall not pray to me. (This is literal). But verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it to you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. Joy is something that comes into the Recreated human spirit. The natural man doesnt have it. Hear Jesus speaking again in John 15:11: These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your JOY may be made full. That is a miracle that Jesus joy may be made full in me. That not only will I make Him joyful, but He imparts to me His joy. That something that makes the evangel irresistible, now fills my heart . When I speak my face will glow, my voice will be filled with the melody of heaven. You see, when He builds himself into us and we begin to labor together with Him, we have His Life, we have His Love, yea, we have Himself. Christ then is being formed in us. Now it is no longer I but Christ. The men who have grown deeply spiritual, are the men in whom the Word has had full control. John 15:7, 8 may throw a little light on this: If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you. Every believer is in Christ, but His words are not in every believer. What does it mean to have His words abiding in me, gaining the absolute ascendancy, dominating me in every phase of my thinking and my life. As Jeremiah said, We feed upon the Word of God. Now I am feeding. I am living in that Word. I am practicing it. I am what James (1:22, 23) calls, a doer of the Word. Jesus said that the doer of the Word dug deep and built his house upon the rock, and it made his house able to stand against any storm that might beat against it. He not only said that, but He said If ye abide in me, and my words have found their place in you, then you can ask what you will and it shall be created by the Father for you,--brought into being. Oh, I see it now. I cooperate with him. In that fifth verse he said, I am the vine, ye are the branches. Now I can understand it. As a branch, I am going to bear His fruit. I am laboring to¬gether with Him. He and I are operating together, are identified one with the other. He is finding a place for His ability to energize and act here on the earth again. It is like a wealthy man that finds an intelligent, young man that he can set up in business, and the young man has ability to use this wealthy mans money. Now He and I are laboring together and the Father is glorified because I am bearing much fruit, and I prove by my life my discipleship. I prove that I am growing in Grace and I am growing in that exact knowledge of God, in all spiritual Wisdom and Under¬standing, to the end that I may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. I am bearing fruit now in every good work, and I am increasing in that exact knowledge, that perfect knowledge of the Father. You have noticed in Jesus life that there was always a sense of sureness, a sense of certainty. There was no vacillating. He never stopped and said, Now pray that I may have wisdom. He had it. Into our lives comes that same quiet sureness, that certainty that we know the Fathers will. We are walking in it. And we are made fruitful with His ability that is at work in us. It is according to the might of His glory, and it has given to us steadfastness and long-suffering, with joy. Col. 1:12: Giving thanks unto the Father, who has given us the ability to enjoy our share of the inheritance of the saints in light. This is a climax of the heart desire of the Father that we should so let Him live His Life in us, that we begin to enjoy our share of our inheritance in Christ. We are drawing dividends on what He has done for us and in us. We are coming to enjoy the riches of His Grace. New Creation Realities
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