Christ working to transform us

But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit. – 2 Cor. 3:18

Many Christians understand only that, in some mystical way, they “invited Jesus into their hearts,” they they have no real experiential knowledge of Christ dwelling in them. Yet, 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that “we all”—that is, all believers—should be “beholding and reflecting” with an “unveiled face” the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I know for many, many years as a Bible-studying Christian I thought that “beholding and reflecting…the glory of the Lord” somehow instead meant “studying and trying to perform according to what I saw of Jesus Christ in the scriptures.” This meant that all my efforts in this regard were centered only in my flesh mind (found in my soul).

Of course, this deficiency was caused by the all to frequent failure of traditional Christianity to even teach that man has a spirit, and that in man’s regenerated spirit is where Jesus Christ dwells with the Triune God by the Holy Spirit.

This is so short!

God really does intend us to be a vessel to contain Him as our life and our everything. Christ desires to become not only our life, but our very person. In God’s economy, He has made a way for Christ to be united and mingled with us so that He can also be working within us to transform us day by day until we are the same as He is in life, nature and expression but not in the Godhead.