The Foundation of Our Lives

John 14:20

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

What a union...the Father and the Son partaking in the same nature, the same perfections and the same glory.  And to think that we share in the same union through our saving relationship with Jesus Christ.  We are righteous through the atoning work of the Son of God on the Cross.  We are risen with Him through the supernatural ascension of His body into heaven after His death.  We sit together with our Savior King just as He sits at the right hand of the Father.

As new men and women in Christ, the world can see us in union with our Savior.  We become identified by our obedience to God's commandments and the fruit that we bear from His callings.  Our lives become expressions of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that have been given to us through our union with Christ - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  In everything we do, we share the perfect love and forgiveness that we received from the Father through the Son.  We please the Father by bringing honor and glory to His name, the name of His Son, Jesus, and to the Holy Spirit.

And we know with absolute certainty that there is no possibility that our lives are the result of our inherent holiness.  All that we see that is good that is being manifested in our lives is being worked out through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.  Our union with Our Savior is the foundation of our lives and our reasoning.  

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You for sending Your Son Jesus to be Our Savior.  We rejoice in our new lives that we take on when we receive and accept the redemptive work of the Cross.  We pray, Father, that we may be emancipated completely from the darkness in our old lives.  May we walk in the fullness of the union of the Father and the Son as we surrender to the work of the Holy Spirit.  We ask all these things in the name of the One who sits at the right hand of the Father, Jesus Christ.