“Those who eat my flesh
and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.”
John 6.56
I have struggled in the past
with this passage and its suggestion of cannibalism. But this comes from my
human thinking, and not from God’s divine intent.
What I believe Jesus is
offering me here is mutual indwelling, an acceptance of Him as surely as if I
had physically taken Him into me. This reality needs to sit in my mind and
heart; it needs to grow in me. I therefore seek to open myself up to the
fullest revelation of His words and His amazing offer to me.
He is offering me a union with
Himself of the order of His union with the Father. I am invited to commune with
Him in the deepest, all-embracing, perpetual relationship. This is not simply a
Redeemer-redeemed connection. This is God Himself, in all His glory and
majesty, justice and mercy, grace and love, abiding in me, consuming me in
divine union with Him. I am not my own, I am with Him and in Him, and with Him
in me.
Am I ready for this? Am I
willing to give over the whole of me into this glorious relationship? I hope so!
I will give over the grotty parts of me to His cleansing and release. I will
live, not for myself or for any selfish ends, but I will practice the life that
is truly in Him.
I will need to remind myself of
His constant and continuing presence with me. I am one with the Living God.
Jesus, Precious Lord,
I come to You in all of my taint and incompleteness. I am a sinner, but
a sinner redeemed. I want to enter into the fullness of union with You, an ongoing
existence of mutual indwelling.
I pray for the presence and guiding of Your Holy Spirit to bring me to
that place of constant awareness of You in me and me in You, of who I am in You,
and our relationship and life together. Thank You, Lord. Amen.
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