John 10:10b – “I am come that you might keep on having life, and might keep on having it abundantly”
Since the day we put our faith in Christ God sees us complete in Him. We are already holy in His presence. We are already perfect in His eyes. We are His righteousness in Christ. There is nothing else to be done to achieve a right relationship with God. When we accept those truths by faith we will live it out each day. God makes what is already true in the eternal, unseen spiritual reality, a reality in the seen and temporal realm.
God gives His kind of Life. From God’s eternal perspective, the believer in Christ is already a finished work. From our human perspective in time and space, He is continuing to work the truth deeper and deeper into our hearts so He can conform us to the image and likeness of Christ. The tension is always there: perfect and yet not perfect, holy and yet sinners, righteous and yet, unrighteous.
Do you experience the life He gives with a sense in which you are content with a knowledge of God’s grace that is more than sufficient for your personal needs, that nothing in this life can suppress it, and that God’s favor toward you is unending? Do you live in the reality of your unending unchanging eternal position in Christ Jesus?
Our life in Christ is a life with a surplus. We have it in Christ in superabundance.
It’s a brand new day! Keep enjoying Kharis!
Pastor Josh Laryea