Christ in Me

“Know ye not… that Jesus Christ is in you?” (2 Corinthians 13:5). The apostle Paul wanted each Christian to live in the full assurance that “Christ is in me.” What a difference it would make in our lives if we could take time every morning to be filled with the thought, “Christ is in me”! As surely as I am in Christ, Christ is also in me. On His last night on earth, Christ clearly told His disciples that the Spirit would teach them: “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (John 14: 20). Through the power of God, all of us who believe were crucified with Christ and raised again with Him. As a result, Christ is in us. But this knowledge does not come easily. Through faith in God’s Word, we Christians accept it, and the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth. (See John 16:13.) Take time this very day to realize and take hold of this blessing in prayer. Paul clearly expressed this thought in the prayer of Ephesians 3: 16–17: “That [the Father] would grant you, according to the riches of his glory”—notice that it is not the ordinary gift of grace, but a special revelation of the riches of His love and power—“ to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” Have you grasped it? Every Christian may really have the experience of being filled with the fullness of God. Dear Christian, Paul said, “I bow my knees unto the Father” (v.14). That is the only way to obtain the blessing. Take time in the inner chamber to realize, “Christ dwells in me. Too little have I experienced this in the past, but I will cry to God and wait upon Him to perfect His work in me. Even in the midst of my daily work, I must look upon my heart as the dwelling place of the Son of God and say, ‘I am crucified with Christ. I live no more; Christ lives in me.’ (See Galatians 2:20.) Only in this way will Christ’s words, ‘Abide in me, and I in you’ (John 15:4), become my daily experience.

— Andrew Murray