Christ in You

Luke 24:35-36 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Here we have the end of the story, Walk to Emmaus. There are several encounters recorded where disciples did not recognize Jesus until He did something significant to the time He spent with these men. In this case it was the breaking of the bread that allowed them to see Jesus.

Now here is the significance for us, here today. What is Jesus doing in your life to reveal Himself in you? I do not mean what are you doing to show Jesus, I mean what is He doing? The real danger in trying to show Jesus in us is that we are moving in our own strength.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Man cannot replicate the power of God. We can only obey by faith and wait on God to move. It might be in that instant or at another time, but it will always be at His good pleasure. I know because I have delivered a word in due season that fell on deaf ears. A year later that person would come back and tell me how God had made what I had said real to him. It isn’t about my expectation because I know that God’s word works in me the same way.

It is much like those two men on their walk to Emmaus. They heard the words that burned in their hearts even though they did not know it was Jesus. God can and does use us to speak in the Spirit the same way. Our utterances come from our heart, His abiding place. It does not come from the mind that is convinced it can do all things in Christ but rather the heart that is Christ in us.

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