She was sitting quietly at her work when a neighbor came in, and the following conversation took place.
"Mrs. Brown, do you know what it means to be `in Christ'?”
"I know what it is to look to the cross.”
"That is not what I mean. Do you know what it is to be 'in Christ'?”
"I know what it is to trust Jesus, ma'am, and through Him to have my sins forgiven.”
"No, I do not mean that. Do you know what it is to be 'in Christ'?" She asked the question the third time.
Now, Mrs. Brown did not like this close questioning. She took up her bucket and went down the garden path. At the well she got some water while she left her visitor sitting in the house.
As she was coming back with her bucket full of water, these words flashed into her mind: "Ye are complete in Him.”
She wondered if that could be what her friend meant. As she went back in she said: "These words have just come into my mind, 'Ye are complete in Him'-is that what you mean?”
"Yes," she said, "you are getting hold of what I mean.”
Mrs. Brown had learned a new thing that day. Not only had Christ died for her, but she was "complete in Him.”
Have you, my reader, gotten hold of what it is to be "in Christ"?
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." Rom. 8:1.