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Called to the Life in the Spirit

Romans 8:9-11; 15-17 The Message

9-11 But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God’s terms. It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!
15-17 This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him!

For Reflection

How much more plain can Paul say it? God resides within you!  God will do for you what God has done for Jesus! When we give our lives to God, we can become:

As mysterious as Jesus.
As loving as Jesus.
As comforting as Jesus.
As insightful as Jesus.
As spiritually healing as Jesus.
As humble as Jesus.
As kind as Jesus.
As wise as Jesus.
As righteous as Jesus.

And at death we will be raised into the presence and being of God,
As was Jesus.

And our legacy of righteousness will live eternally,
As will Jesus' righteousness endure to the end of time.

Divine Transformation

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Pray and be transformed into the likeness of Jesus.

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