At
that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you. John
14:20
Our Lord spoke of His life in the
Father: “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me” (John
14:11). He and the Father were not two individuals next to each other; they
were in each other. Though Christ was on earth as a man, He lived in the
Father. Everything He did was what the Father did in Him.
Christ in God and God in Christ is the picture
of what our life in Christ is to be here on earth. It is in the very nature of
the divine life that the Son is in the Father. Even so, we must ever live in
the faith that we are in Christ. Then we will learn that, even as the Father
worked in Christ, so Christ will also work in us if we only yield ourselves to
His power.
And even as the Son waited on the Father and
as the Father worked through Him, so the disciples would make known to Him in
prayer what they wanted done on earth, and He would do it. Their life in Him
was to be the reflection of His life in the Father. As the Father worked in
Him, because He lived in the Father, so Christ would work in them as they lived
in Him.
But this would not be fulfilled until the Holy
Spirit came. They had to wait until they were filled with the power from on
high. For this they abided in Him by daily fellowship and prayer, so that He
might do in them the greater works He had promised.
How little the church understands that the
secret of her power is to be found in nothing less than where Christ found it,
abiding in the Father and His love! Ministers, too, seldom understand that this
should be their one great goal, daily and hourly to abide in Christ as the only
possible way of being equipped and used by Him in the great work of winning
souls to Him. If anyone asks what the lost secret of the pulpit is, we have it
here: “At that day”—when the Spirit fills your heart—“At that day ye shall
know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.”
Blessed Lord, teach us to surrender ourselves
unreservedly to the Holy Spirit. Teach us, above everything, to wait daily for
His teaching, so that we, too, may know the blessed secret, that as You are in
the Father, so we are in You, and You work through us.
Gracious Lord, pour down upon all Your
children, who are seeking to work for You, such a spirit of grace and of
supplication that we may not rest until we, too, are filled with the Holy
Spirit.
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