CHRIST IN YOU

Do you long for a deeper, intimate relationship with Jesus? We all do. Well, we all should. While many long for this deep connection with our Creator, they struggle to experience it in their day to day life.

My parents got saved and began attending church when I was just past my first birthday. They dove heart first into ministry and that's how I grew up. We were there any time the doors were open, in fact, more often than not we were the ones who opened the doors and then locked them back up at the end. I was baptized in water at age nine and began serving in ministry myself at age twelve. It was around fourteen years old that I realized the need for a more personal connection with Jesus -that I wasn't going to get to heaven just based on my parents salvation. I needed Christ in me.

In his new book, Christ in You, Gary York teaches how to have that intimate experience with Jesus. He shows us that God gives each and every person a very personal invitation to a life with Him and when we accept that invitation, we become a union of us living in Christ and Christ living in us.

Gary says, "Our relationship with Jesus gives us the vision, purpose, and power to draw closer to Him. The path of growth is relational at its core because Christ Himself dwells in us, guiding us and empowering every step of our training."

He also says, "Words stagger beneath the weight of this glory. Christ in you in news so great that human language fails. We confess it, yet seldom live wide awake to it. Too often, we drift through our days as though God were a far-off God when He offers us the feast of His presence." Aren't we tired of the drift? Aren't we ready to fully live the life Christ has called us to live, a life of Christ fully in us?

Christ in You is a great read. I love how each of the fourteen chapters end with a hymn. Each chapter also ends with through provoking questions and there is Scripture throughout. For more on Christ in  You, click HERE.