Growth and Life

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An incredibly important quote from the writing of T. Austin-Sparks to consider for today:

Everything which has to do with the realization of God’s purpose in creating man, and this world, and its universe, is a matter of knowing God in Christ, which, of course, means knowing Christ. Every aspect and detail of God’s will and God’s way and God’s end is a matter of knowing the Lord Jesus. All progress, as all life, rests upon that – knowing Him. The Christian life here is meant to be one of continuous growth and development and progress, but that only takes place as we come to know more, and still more, of the meaning of the Lord Jesus. This progress will not stop when we leave this world, and when time gives place to eternity: “Of the increase of His kingdom there will be no end.” Stagnation is no mark of Life, and Life there will be ever manifesting itself in new and more wonderful fullnesses and forms. Therefore, the knowledge of Christ which will, in time and eternity, be the secret of growth and progress, will continue in heaven, and it will take eternity to exhaust it….

Seeing He is so vast, so immense, so many-sided, we can only see Him from one standpoint at a time; we have to move round to see Him from every angle. And at this time we are just looking at the Lord Jesus from one of the many angles, or points of view, which is this particular aspect of His significance: that He, in His Person and in His work, stands related to an eternal, heavenly order. He Himself, in His wonderful, complex Person, is the very embodiment of all the principles and laws of a great heavenly order. When everything is conformed to Christ and takes its character from Him, it will be one glorious, harmonious whole, perfected into one, just one glorious unity… I have only opened a window to you through which you can see a universe.

From: Divine Order in Christ – Chapter 3 

This is the Lord that dwells inside you and me, whom we can fellowship with whenever we want.  He desires for us to come to Him, to know Him, and to explore Him.

Do not hesitate to seek knowing the Lord more each day! As you seek to know Jesus Christ, you will discover Him in new ways.  You will be transformed and changed as you fellowship with and learn to live by the life of Jesus Christ inside of you!

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