August 27

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“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:2727To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27)).
“Christ in you”! Who among God’s redeemed children can fathom it! “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.” Yet God’s Word assures me that “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Our Lord promised that “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth.  ...  If a man love Me, He will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” Paul’s prayer for the saints is “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith  ...  and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” “Christ in you.” “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!”
Christ lives within me:
Oh what grace! More than my heart can comprehend;
Such knowledge fills me with His love;
I long to serve Him to the end.
Psa. 139:6; Gal. 2:20; John 14:16-17,23; Eph. 3:16-19; Rom. 11:33.