EAT LIFE TO BE ALIVE IN YOUR SPIRIT
16/05/24 07:58
Jesus said, ‘Those who eat me will live because of Me.’ The fact that Christ is for us and is us vicariously is known as the vicarious humanity of Jesus. When we participate in the eucharist the bread and the wine become us through digestion. This is the outward indication that Jesus has drawn us into Himself so that we are one with Him and one with God. The sacrament means that we are one with Christ by the One Spirit. We have real life and become a real self in Jesus.
JESUS THE WAY OF LIFE
James Torrance writes, “The good news is that God comes to us in Jesus to stand in for us and bring to fulfilment his purposes of worship and communion. Jesus comes to be the priest of creation to do for us, men and women, what we failed to do, to offer to the Father the worship and the praise we failed to offer, to glorify God by a life of perfect love and obedience, to be the one true servant of the Lord. In him and through him we are renewed by the Spirit in the image of God and in the worship of God in a life of shared communion.” (1)
ALREADY ONE
By the atonement you are already one with God. This is not a work you must achieve. By the incarnation Christ, Father and Holy Spirit are woven into your being. Good Christianity is living from the position that Jesus has placed you – in Himself in God. Here is our true sabbath rest – rest from the busyness of self-validation and the attempt to earn acceptance with Christ. Jesus is our acceptance and the guarantee of our belonging in God.
He is the way of living in peace and joy in the ordinary of life.
(1) James B Torrance. Worship, Communion and the True God of Grace. P 14.
JESUS THE WAY OF LIFE
James Torrance writes, “The good news is that God comes to us in Jesus to stand in for us and bring to fulfilment his purposes of worship and communion. Jesus comes to be the priest of creation to do for us, men and women, what we failed to do, to offer to the Father the worship and the praise we failed to offer, to glorify God by a life of perfect love and obedience, to be the one true servant of the Lord. In him and through him we are renewed by the Spirit in the image of God and in the worship of God in a life of shared communion.” (1)
ALREADY ONE
By the atonement you are already one with God. This is not a work you must achieve. By the incarnation Christ, Father and Holy Spirit are woven into your being. Good Christianity is living from the position that Jesus has placed you – in Himself in God. Here is our true sabbath rest – rest from the busyness of self-validation and the attempt to earn acceptance with Christ. Jesus is our acceptance and the guarantee of our belonging in God.
He is the way of living in peace and joy in the ordinary of life.
(1) James B Torrance. Worship, Communion and the True God of Grace. P 14.
