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 (specially 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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