I hear many say for us to read scripture, but when you meditate on this thing, it becomes real in your heart, and you become scripture. Jesus showed us the way to this. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Jesus is the Word made flesh, He died, but the Word never dies. “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two–edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” The words that came out of Jesus are spirit and life. “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” What does this mean for us when we meditate on these things?
If Jesus is the Word-made-flesh and He is in us, we have become the Word-made-flesh. The word is spirit and is Life. As followers of Jesus, we renew our minds to think spiritually as He did. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors––not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” To live through Christ, you have to have the same mind as Christ, laying your life for Him even to the point of death. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
I pray that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened of who Christ is in you. It’s from Him where we live. “For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets.” Be blessed, my friends
