Acts 17:28 “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.”
We are in Him, God, because God is in us. God must have entered us first because we were corpse dead without Him. Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:1 “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” He must have entered our bodies before He quickened us. We were as lost souls like unto the earth when God created it, “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2 Lost souls are dark inside and they are void of any good just as the earth was before the Holy Spirit entered it. God called us “dead” which means inside we are as dead and void as a corpse. When God created man, he was just a void body, void of a soul and a spirit, just as a dead corpse laying on the ground. It is when God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Gen. 2:7b. In the same manor God enters into our bodies, quickens our dead spirits and we become alive inside, He turns on the lights and causes us to see, hear, and believe the gospel, giving us life. He brings a new nature into us and begins to teach us and lead us, and giving us knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. We are never alone again, because God is in us, the whole Trinity wow lives within us. God is a Spirit there for He is like unto a breeze or a breath of air inside of us. We are now beings of God, called sons of God, our spirits are alive, our new natures are active, and God is now leading our walk on the earth. If you are saved you can feel God inside of you, you can feel Him working in your heart and causing wonderful things to develop inside of you. You will never be the same as you were because you are a new creature. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5:17. You have a new thought process, you began to think about God and His will for you, you have a heart willing to read, study and learn God’s word. You look at the word differently, and because you are different. Your friends will notice you are acting differently, because old things are passed away, just as God said they would. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5:17 God told us that the things of this world are passed and no longer our desires, they are in our past all things are new. “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (3) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” Ephesians 2:2 As Christians, as God’s children, we no longer live in the past, all has changed, God is now guiding our learning, thoughts, our walk, and our actions. Then we desire to serve the Lord, why, because we are fulfilling God’s ordained will for us ordained before the world was ever created. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10. We no longer are our own to do as we please, we no longer seek pride, or boast, or are selfish, or any of those past things. Oh no, we just seek to please God and His blessed will for us. It is all because we live, move, and have our being in Christ Jesus. God will from this moment on bless you so much it will make you cry inside. What will your new life be, a church member, a singer or song leader, a prayer warrior, a teacher, a minister, a missionary, or maybe a Pastor, or maybe just a great Christian and servant of God in many ways. But whatever your life is as a Christian it is by the grace of God and because God is in us directing our new life. And when your life is over and you have spent your new life serving the very God that blessed you so much, we to can gladly say, “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10. Amen!!!
