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.
Some of
you may feel that this is very unlike your own experience. You may say `I've
never had the sense of being helped by an invisible Christ, but I often have
been helped by other human beings.' That is rather like the woman in the first
war who said that if there were a bread shortage it would not bother her house
because they always ate toast. If there is no bread there will be no toast. If
there were no help from Christ, there would be no help from other human beings.
He works on us in all sorts of ways: not only through what we think is our
'religious life'. He works through Nature, through our own bodies, through
books, sometimes through experiences which seem (at the time) anti-Christian.
When a young man who has been going to church in a routine way honestly
realises that he does not believe in Christianity and stops going-provided he
does it for honesty's sake and not just to annoy his parents-the spirit of
Christ is probably nearer to him then than it ever was before. But above all,
He works on us through each other.
Men are
mirrors, or 'carriers' of Christ to other men. Sometimes unconscious carriers.
This 'good infection' can be carried by those who have not got it themselves.
People who were not Christians themselves helped me to Christianity. But
usually it is those who know Him that bring Him to others.
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