May 10
You are in Him, made full and having come
to fullness of life (Colossians 2:10 AMP).
The Cross is a full and final principle, although
it has many aspects. It is a full and final principle. We are going to see that
the Cross in its fullness and finality was right there at the beginning of the
Bible. As a principle, it was absolute then. It is just in so far as you and I
bring our lives at this time of the day back to God’s fullness in the Cross
that we are going to know this progressive development and increase of Life -
so far and no more.
The Cross is a great divide. It divides people
into three categories. Firstly, it makes a broad division between those who
never get into Life, and those who do. Whether men and women get into Life at
all depends entirely upon their acceptance of the Cross. But it divides
further. It divides between those who do get into Life, and those who go right
through to fullness of Life, and there is quite a real division there. Whether
you like the theory or not, it is a fact. There are many Christians who are in
the way of Life, that is, who have entered the way of Life, but are not going
right on to fullness of Life. That is really what the New Testament is about -
trying to get Christians who have entered into Life to go on to fullness of
Life. The Cross divides between those, because, while we come into the way of
Life by the Cross, we also only come into the fullness of Life by the Cross,
and that is another thing - a fuller, deeper application of the Cross. So the Cross
makes three categories, those not in Life, those in Life, and those in Life
going on to fullness of Life.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Cross and
the Way of Life - Chapter 2
This photograph is from a Facebook page called Live Life in Color.
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