Spiritual Strength For Each Day

“…I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:4).  

This great joy was not based on anything temporal, but on the eternal love of God, which nothing can change and which exalts us in Christ, “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places” (Ephesians 2:6). How highly we have been exalted!
However terrible or monotonous our experiences may be, they have no power to attack the love of God in Jesus Christ, if we are in Him and remain in Him. The Lord said of our earthly existence, “…and I in you” (John 15:4). Our Lord Jesus is at the right hand of the majesty of God in heaven, and simultaneously He lives through the Holy Spirit in each believer’s heart. What a miracle of the grace of Jesus! Paul makes it clear when he says, “Christ is dwelling in you so that you may understand with all the saints, “…what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:18-19). Four dimensions of the divine love! How exalted you are, child of God! You have been raised with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places—infinitely high! Now we are able to understand what it means when the Bible says our conversation or citizenship is in heaven during our time on earth.

 

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