Colossians 1:26–27
the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations,
but is now disclosed to the saints.
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the
glorious riches of this mystery,
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
You see what is happening. The Christ Himself,
the Son of God who is man (just like you) and God (just like His Father) is
actually at your side and is already at that moment beginning to turn your
pretense into a reality. This is not merely a fancy way of saying that your
conscience is telling you what to do. If you simply ask your conscience, you
get one result; if you remember that you are dressing up as Christ, you get a
different one. There are lots of things which your conscience might not call
definitely wrong (especially things in your mind) but which you will see at
once you cannot go on doing if you are seriously trying to be like Christ. For
you are no longer thinking simply about right and wrong; you are trying to
catch the good infection from a Person. It is more like painting a portrait
than like obeying a set of rules. And the odd thing is that while in one way it
is much harder than keeping rules, in another way it is far easier.
The real Son of God is at your side. He is
beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself. He is beginning, so
to speak, to 'inject' His kind of life and thought, His Zoe, into
you; beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man. The part of you that
does not like it is the part that is still tin.
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