by Joyce Sibthorpe
Whilst away ministering, on the Sunday in church, we were singing an old hymn, “Immortal, invisible, God only wise…” – great words. We had been teaching about “Christ in you – the hope of glory”, and as the young pastor turned and looked in my direction, I mouthed, “This is who lives in you! The Son of the living God! The One who is “almighty, victorious, whose great name we praise.”
It almost seems blasphemous – but that is what the New Testament teaches – God himself lives in me. “I no longer live, Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Wow! Wow! Wow! (Galatians 2:20)
I’ve often wondered why some believers seem to have the label, “Baby Christian” when they have been born again for years. Others seem to have matured immediately like Paul – saved, baptised, preaching Jesus within such a short space of time. I believe is has to do with understanding who came to live inside of you when you received new birth. It wasn’t a “Baby Jesus” who had to grow inside you – NO! You received the resurrected Lord of glory – YES!
However, if you have not truly died and been resurrected into the new life Jesus spoke about to Nicodemus, it is possible that there is so much of you still in action, and so little of Jesus to be seen, that people call you a “Baby Christian.”
The Jesus who lived in Paul lives in you. The Jesus who lived in Stephen, in Dorcas, in Aquilla & Priscilla, lives in you and me! Not just some half hearted influence for good – NO – a living person – Jesus – the resurrected God/Man of the trinity. It is beyond our understanding, but it needs to be revealed and then we will let him live, and be glad to die daily - so that we let Him be Lord.
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