In Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ,
who is the head over every ruler and authority.
(Colossians 2:9,10 NLT)
Oh, those subtle suggestions that are ever
being whispered in our ears, that if we give up this and that we are going to
lose, and life is going to be poorer, and we are going to be narrowed down until
we have nothing left. It is a lie! That is the thing that is countering God's
great thought for us. God's thought for us is that One, no less than His Son
Jesus Christ, in Whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form,
should be our fullness. All the fullness of God in Christ for us! You never attain
to that by rejecting Him. Life must be much less than it need be if you are not
going all the way with the Lord; and what obtains in the matter of our
consecration to the Lord, our entire and complete abandonment to Him in our life
and our complete cut with all that is not of the Lord, obtains in the realm of
service. This flesh loves to sport itself in Christian work, and tells us that
if we are going to be dependent upon the Lord we are going to have an anxious
time. But a life of dependence upon God can be a life of continual romance. It
is there that we make discoveries which are a constant wonder.
You may be nearly dead one minute and in the
next the Lord gives you something to do and you are very much alive, dependent
upon Him for every breath you breathe. But thus you come to know the Lord. Then
after that experience you are just as helpless and dead again for a while, but
you remember that the Lord did something. Then He does it again; and so life
becomes a romance; yet no one would ever guess you were depending on the Lord
for your very breath. It is a very blessed thing to know the Lord is doing it,
when you could not do it at all; it is, humanly, naturally, impossible, but the
Lord is doing it!