In
Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been
given fullness in Christ. Colossians 2:9,10
We have said that Christ is a heavenly revelation, but Christ is
also a heavenly fullness. If God has revealed His mind, His thought in Christ;
if all that God intended has been brought to us in a personal revelation: God
has followed that up by the fullest provision in Christ for its realization and
its attainment. So that every need of ours is supplied according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. In Christ there is not only a standard set, but every
kind of provision for attaining to God’s standard. All the secret resources of
God to reach His end are there in Christ for us. If He has come out with the
mind of God in fullness, He has also come out with the resources of God in
fullness. All the fullness dwells in Him, and we are made full in Him (Col.
2:9). God could never judge us at the end by His standard of revelation if He
had not made all provision for our realizing of that standard....
God’s thought is centered in Christ in heaven, and God’s
resources are centered in Christ in heaven. That means that the Lord’s people
in this dispensation are essentially a heavenly people, and that means that it
is quite impossible to attain unto God’s thought or to know God’s resources in
Christ until we are a heavenly people. If in any way (and we are speaking to
the Lord’s people now, and speaking of the life which we would call the
Christian life), or in any measure we are earthbound, it will be in that
measure impossible to attain unto God’s thought, and to know God’s resources.
God only takes responsibility to supply and to carry on that which is
essentially heavenly, and in the measure in which a thing is heavenly, and only
in that measure (but surely in that measure), God takes
responsibility for it. If it is in any way linked with this world, becoming a
part of this world system, related to this earth, it has got to take
responsibility for itself to carry its own weight, to find its own resources,
to see its own way through.
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