February
23
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one
in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).
When we are really "in Christ," to use
Paul's phrase, we are always regarded as being together, though we may be
thousands of miles apart. The Lord Jesus does not look upon us as being in this
country, in that country and in another country. He Himself is the only Country
in this universe, and so we leave our country and our own nationality when we
come into Christ. The Jews were exclusive and said: 'We are the only people and
our country is the only country.' Jesus went outside those frontiers and
touched the world outside....
In the Lord Jesus every earthly division is
removed. There are no British, Swiss, German, French or Indian in Christ. He is
only one Nationality and that is a heavenly one. He is only one Language and
that is a spiritual one. He is the heavenly Country. No matter what, we are
here, in Him we are all together as one Man in Christ. All the earthly
distinctions of place and time disappear in Him. It may take us a long time to
travel about this world, though men think it is a very wonderful thing to
travel at so many hundred or thousand miles a minute and get to the moon in no
very great time! But, dear friends, in this very moment in Christ we can touch
our brethren six or seven thousand miles away. That is a miracle.... This Life
is eternal Life; it is timeless; it knows no space; everything is present when
Jesus is present.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Discipleship In
The School Of Christ - Chapter 4
This photograph is from a Facebook page called Live Life in Color.
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