Verse of the day: How did Jesus the Lord receive Christ?(Colosssenses 2. 6)
The life of faith is represented as receiving, an act that implies the exact opposite of everything that implies merit. It is simply the acceptance of a gift. Just as the earth soaks the rain, the sea receives water from the rivers and the night accepts the light of the stars, so we too, without offering anything, freely share God’s grace. By nature, believers are not springs or torrents. They are just cisterns in which the water of life flows. They are empty utensils in which God pours out his salvation. The act of receiving implies a feeling of fulfillment, of making a problem a reality. No one can receive shade. We receive the substantial. In the life of faith, Christ becomes real to us. Although we have no faith, Christ is only a name for us, a person who lived long ago, so long ago that his life is only a historical fact for us. today! By an act of faith, Jesus becomes a real person in our soul consciousness. But receiving is also taking possession. What I receive becomes mine, I take it for myself. When I receive Jesus, He becomes my Savior. Jesus becomes so mine that neither life nor death can rob me. All this is to receive Christ, to take him as a gift from God, to conceive him in my heart and appropriate him as my own. Salvation can be described as a blind person with vision, a deaf person who hears, a deceased person who receives life. However, we don’t just receive these blessings; we have received the same Lord Jesus Christ. It is true that he gave us life from the dead; He has given us the forgiveness of sins; He has done us imputed justice. All these blessings are precious, but we are not satisfied with them; We have received the same Lord Jesus! The Son of God has been poured out on us, we have received and taken him. How full, then, should we be, since heaven itself cannot contain Jesus!