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Sunday, June 16, 2013

How is Christ Formed in the Believers in Galatians 4:19?


   Some verses are hard to get at first. This week I read a Life-Study that covered a verse like that. It's Galatians 4:19:  My children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you.  Have you ever thought how's that supposed to happen? 

   When a person is born again like it talks about in John 3, the Lord's life within him is just like that of a newborn babe.  Just like for our physical existence, spiritual food is all that new life needs in order to grow. Year after year this eating causes us to go through stages of growth that very much mirror our own human growth.  These lines about this process stood out to me  on pages 204-205 of my reading in chapter 23:
 Paul was in travail that Christ might be formed in the Galatians....Christ was born into the Galatian believers, but not formed in them, when they were regenerated through Paul's preaching the gospel to them the first time. Now the apostle travails again that

Christ might be formed in them.  To have Christ formed in us is to have Christ grown in us in full. First Christ was born into us at our conversion, then He lives in us in our Christian life (2:20), and He will be formed in us at our maturity" (Lee, Witness. Life Study of Galatians. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1979, Print).
  Reading this made me think the Lord's life doesn't want to stay shriveled up within us. He wants to grow and spread in our hearts until Christ is fully formed within us. And that's what everything in our lives are helping accomplish!

 Update 11/3/13:  You can listen to fellowship on Galatians 4:19 on Program 23 called The Need for Christ to Be Formed on Life Study of the Bible with Witness Lee.
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