(In the context of finding yourself deeply in Love with Jesus, and completely at peace…) Laying aside the possibility that you are enjoying the wonders of having gone stark raving mad, I would surmise that you have come to understand that you are utterly one with Christ. One thing is certain, which ever case it may be, do not attempt to understand. Oneness with the Lord is inexplicable. Further, do not look for a cure!
~Gene Edwards
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
~ 1 Corinthians 6:17
Communion.
Yeah, we bandy the term about like it is something that we do. Some of us do it many times a week, or even every day. It is so important to understand how close we are with god and everything. We have to show Him how much we care, and…
Stop.
Please beloved. Wait with me here for just a moment….
Consider this passage from the epicenter of The Gospel in Romans 6:
For if we have been united with him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
You, dear believer, are one with God. You are in a communal union with Him. You are not just really close like a husband and wife in their closest moments. You are in a relationship that is the consummation of the beautiful shadow represented in holy marriage.
What does this mean? Might this writer be so bold as to suggest that it means everything.
Once we were desperately and horribly alone. And worst of all, we were enslaved to ourselves and the sin that comes from that horrible “I” in all of us. Now, we are free from both the penalty of our sin, and the putridity of our old selves. And in this freedom, we are now fully at peace with the One from whom we had been separated. And further, because of this profound state of peace, there is nothing between the Spirit of the Living God – and the spirit of the living man who has been saved.
Then, in that state of peace, in that place of surrender to Him, in that answering to the knock of His hand upon the door of our heart – we simply open to Him and He does a wonderful work. In a moment that will not ever (read never, ever, ever) end, He becomes our very Life.
We are living in the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer to His Father in John 17:21:
That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Wait here for moment friends… Wait in this place with Him tonight. Ponder this truth in your spirit. See if it does not bring incredible hope to your circumstances. See if it does not begin to bring audacious, strength-yielding joy as you reckon true the truth that you are one with Him and forever in His Presence.
This very Good News!
Paul speaks of our being “united with him by the likeness of his death”. For by baptism we acknowledge in a figure that God has wrought an intimate union between ourselves and Christ in this matter of death and resurrection. One day I was seeking to emphasize this Truth to a Christian brother. We happened to be drinking tea together, so I took a lump of Sugar and stirred it into my tea. A couple of minutes later I asked, Can you tell me where the sugar is now, and where the tea?’ No’, he said, you have put them together and the one has become lost in the other; they cannot now be separated.’ It was a simple illustration, but it helped him to see the intimacy and the finality of our union with Christ in death. It is God that has put us there, and God’s acts cannot be reversed.
~ Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life
