Col 1:27,28
… Christ in you, is the hope ( expectation ) of glory:
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man
in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect
( matured ) in Christ Jesus.
Certainly, all of us have come to Christ out of our deep need. Jesus our Hero, rescued us, not because of our strengths, but because we were weak, needy and dying. God chooses the weak things to shame the strong and the foolish things to shame the wise, so He chose we weak foolish ones to show that it is His wisdom, His power and His glory alone that matters. So, on one hand, the Church can be likened to a hospital; for healing the sick and nurturing the young. Yet, if in the process of time we are not healed, does that not reflect poorly upon our Great Physician? If we do not grow up, does that not indict the effectiveness of our Master at making disciples and bearing fruit after His own kind? May it never be! Is not, one of the most glorious testaments to Jesus, the fact that those who were once frail, miserable and broken, through faith in Him, have found His overcoming power reproduced in themselves? The sickly now in health, the tormented now at peace and the downcast now rejoicing! These, bearing witness to the transforming power of Jesus at work within them, being changed from the inside out? You see, Christ within you makes all the difference in the world. The glory of God is His Son Jesus Christ, who is glorified through His body the church, as we become like Him, as He is, the perfect man.
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