Luke 1:35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”
If the Son of God is born into my mortal flesh, is His holy innocence and simplicity and oneness with the Father getting a chance to manifest itself in me? What was true of the Virgin Mary in the historic introduction of God’s Son into this earth is true in every saint. The Son of God is born into me by the direct act of God; then I as a child of God have to exercise the right of a child, the right of being always face to face with my Father.
Whatever the circumstances may be, the Holy Innocent Eternal Child must be in contact with His Father. Is He getting His wonderful way in me? Is God realizing that His Son is formed in me, or have I carefully put Him on one side? Is the Son of God praying in me or am I dictating to Him? Is He ministering in me as He did in the days of His flesh?
Is the Son of God in me going through His passion for His own purposes? The more one knows of the inner life of God’s ripest saints, the more one sees what God’s purpose is – “filling up that which is behind of the affliction of Christ.” There is always something to be done in the sense of “filling up”.
My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers, August 8.
