It should be remarked, too, that there is no power to express Christ in our walk down here unless we are occupied with Him in glory. He should thus be, in this character, ever before us, and He will be when, taught of the Spirit, we can say to Him, “All our springs, all the sources of our joy, are in Thee.” And He Himself desires this, for He said to His disciples, when speaking of the coming Spirit of truth, “He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you” (John 16:14-1514He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. 15All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. (John 16:14‑15)).
Occupation with Christ is, therefore, the Alpha and the Omega of the Christian life, occupation with His death—that death which laid the foundation not only of our own redemption and deliverance, but also of the reconciliation of all things, occupation with Him in incarnation, when, though He were the Son, He learned obedience by the things which He suffered, when, as the obedient and dependent Man, He found His meat in doing the Father’s will and in finishing His work, and thus glorified God in every detail of that wondrous life, and, above all, occupation with Him in the glory—as the glorified Man—the center of all God’s counsels, and the object of all His delight; yea, the satisfying portion of His heart. It is thus by occupation with, feeding upon, contemplating Christ that we are brought, in the power of the Spirit, into fellowship with God, enabled to enter into His own thoughts concerning, and even to share His own affections for that blessed One who is now seated at His own right hand. Surely here then is the source of all growth, strength and blessing!
Blessed Lord Jesus! keep Thyself so constantly before our souls, and so unfold Thyself in all Thy grace and beauty to our hearts, that, drawing out our affections, we may desire to have nothing, to see nothing, and to know nothing but Thyself, for in Thee dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and we are complete in Thee. (See Col. 2:9-109For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: (Colossians 2:9‑10).) (Adapted)
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