Luke 2:52, "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature
and in favour with God and man."
The wonderful truth of the New Covenant is that Christ now
lives inside every believer. God is not distant, aloof, detached or away. God
is not is some place, somewhere and needs us to search and seek him. When we
believe, he comes and dwells within us, in all his fullness and glory.
The difficulty I have is that I don’t realize and recognize
the amazing God I have living inside of me. Years of bad thinking, incorrect
theology, worldly wisdom and lies had dulled me to the amazing new creation
within me.
I need to grow in the truth of that which is already evident
in my new spirit. My mind needs to be awakened and transformed to the grace of
God.
Jesus had to grow and learn in his physical body. He had to
immerse himself into all the treasures of wisdom of God's ever increasing grace.
Andrew Wommack explains that Jesus became like us : -
How could it be that Jesus, who was God, and in whom are
hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, increased in wisdom?
God is a Spirit. Jesus, as God, had existed as a Spirit
forever.
When He came to the earth as Jesus, he was Lord at birth,
but that was in His Spirit. His Spirit didn't have to grow or increase in wisdom
but His physical body did.
The Lord could have done things differently, but He didn't.
Jesus came into this world in His physical body exactly as we did. He had to
grow and learn.
He became just like us so that we could become just like Him.
This is the great exchange. He became like us so that He
could bear all our iniquities and become a mercy high priest for us.
Christianity does not produce a changed life but an
exchanged life. Christ does not reform us, but He transforms us through His
union with us. In the same way that the Eternal Christ could come and inhabit
the body of an infant and still retain all His deity, He now inhabits our
bodies through the new birth in all His glory and power. Like Jesus, grow in
your wisdom and understanding of who you now are in Christ.
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