For it has pleased God to tell his people that the riches and
glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. For this is the secret: Christ lives
in you… (Colossians 1:27 NLT).
Christianity is the living, pulsating life of God in a human
person; it’s Christ at home in you. Christianity is divinity at work and alive
in and through you; it’s the relationship between a human being and a living
God.
Christianity isn’t a religion at all. Religion is man’s work
towards God; his ways and efforts to reach out to God. Christianity, on the
other hand, is God’s work in man. It’s a call to oneness with Divinity; a walk
with God in righteousness; a call to the transcendent life of glory and love.
Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of glory. That’s Christianity:
Christ alive in you.
Someone once said, “I’m now very religious, since I became a
Christian”; no! That’s a complete misunderstanding of who a Christian is. A
Christian is one in whom God dwells; a partaker of the divine nature—an
associate of the God-kind. This makes Christianity so sublime! God wasn’t
satisfied to merely be with or live amongst us, He chose rather to take up His
abode in the quarters of our hearts! That’s the beauty and glory of Christianity!
It’s the life of God lived out through you. It’s the unveiling of the Living
Word in a human life!
Until and unless this becomes your understanding of
Christianity, all you have will be mere religion. The essence of Christianity,
the reason we go to church, pray, preach the Gospel and do the things we do as
Christians isn’t because we’ve embraced a religion, but because we’ve received
God’s nature—His life. That’s what Jesus brought to us. He made it possible for
us to receive eternal life—the indomitable, impregnable, “uninfectable” life of
God: “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this
life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the
Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:11-12).
CONFESSION: I’m an associate of the God-kind, the effulgence
of God’s glory, and the dispenser of His goodness! I’m an heir of God and a
joint-heir with Christ; therefore, the world belongs to me. Greater is He
that’s in me than he that’s in the world. I’m the glory of God!
FURTHER STUDY: Psalm 87:2-3, Hebrews 12:22-24
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Acts 7:54-8:1-8 2 Chronicles 31-32
2 YEAR BIBLE READING
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