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OCTOBER 22
CHRIST REVEALED WITHIN
“It pleased God, who
separated me from my
mother’s womb, and called me
by His grace, to reveal His
Son in me, that I might
preach Him…” (Gal. 1:15-16)
Everything awaits an inward
revelation of Christ, which
results in His central
supremacy in our life. This
alone enables us to preach
HIM. Many try to describe
His beauty, tell of His
virtues, attributes, ways;
but only in the measure that
He revealed IN US, can we
truly speak Him forth to
others.
Preach Him - not the
furthering of a movement, a
work, a teaching. We find
people are always “giving
themselves to the work,” or,
contributing to the work.”
All of which demands our
protection and defense and
support of the flesh. All
the jealous factions are
made because something other
than Christ has become the
central factor. The
existence of all this simply
represents the absence of an
adequate revelation of
Christ, for as “HE”
increases, all these things
surely decrease.
Now we see through a glass
darkly, but the hour is
coming when we shall see Him
face to face. There have
been veiled images, but they
are so illusive. “I see Him,
but not nigh,” Balaam said.
He beheld, but it was afar
off, and he spoke of Him as
the Star that would come out
of Jacob, and the Scepter
that would rise out of
Israel, but he lacked that
supremacy in his own life,
and so found it easier to
compromise with
circumstances at hand.
Paul had revelations so
great he could not utter
them, so startling and
glorious he could not tell
whether he was in his body,
or out of his body, but he
still cried out with deep
desire, “THAT I MAY KNOW
HIM.” (Phil. 3:10). It is
that full, inward revelation
that we desire. This is
imperative and it is this
very thing that causes us to
lay down our self-life, that
we might know HIS LIFE in
fullest measure. “A merchant
man, seeking goodly pearls:
who, when he had found one
pearl of great price, went
and sold all that he had,
and bought it.” (Matt.
13:45-46). We gladly offer
up all that we have, that we
might receive Him in His
fullness.
Ray Prinzing |
