February 25
Once more I will shake not
only the earth but also the heavens. (Hebrews 12:26 ESV)
Everything is going to be
shaken in earth and in heaven, with a view to finding out just how much there
is of Christ living in it. These Jewish believers were going to see the temple
and the whole temple system wrecked, and then they would discover just how much
they had got of Christ, or how much of their life was bound up with earthly
things. They would see what was left when that was all gone. God is not only
going to shake Judaism, but this heavenly thing. He will shake heaven and
earth, and we shall find out by that shaking what we have left when the earthly
system passes, when even the representation of heavenly things in Christianity
is tested (for Christianity has developed a representation of heavenly things,
just as Judaism has). Men have made an earthly representation of the New
Testament revelation of the church, and ministry, and priesthood. It is all
going to be tested. For many it is now in the melting pot. The issue is the
shaking of heaven and earth. What have we got left? The issue is Christ.
Whether you like all that we
have said, or agree with it or not, does not worry me; but I am concerned that
we have come to Christ, to show that Christ in heaven is our Life, Christ in
heaven is our All, and appointed to be so by God, and nothing here can take the
place of Christ. God will bring everything to an end that takes the place of
Christ. He has determined from eternity that in all things Christ should have
the preeminence, and have the fullness, and that nothing shall glory before Him
or take His place. The Lord bring us into a larger measure of Christ, and a
larger measure of Christ into us.
By T. Austin-Sparks
from: That Which Was
From The Beginning - Chapter 2
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