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CHRIST IN ME by Max Lucado

Like Mary, you and I are indwelt by Christ.

Find that hard to believe? How much more did Mary? No one was more surprised by this miracle than she was. And no one more passive than she was. God did everything. Mary didn’t volunteer to help. What did she have to offer? She offered no assistance.

And she offered no resistance. Instead she said, “behold, the bond-slave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word”(Luke 1:38).

Unlike Mary, we tend to assist God, assuming our part is as important as his. Or we resist, thinking we are too bad or too busy. Yet when we assist or resist, we miss God’s great grace. We miss out on the reason we were placed on earth-to be so pregnant with heaven’s child that he lives through us. To be so full of him that we could say with Paul, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.”(Gal. 2:20)

What would that be like? To have a child within is a miracle, but to have Christ within?

To have my voice, but him speaking.
My steps, but Christ leading.
My heart, but his love beating
in me, through me, with me.
What’s it like to have Christ on the inside?

To tap his strength when mine expires
or feel the force of heaven’s fires
raging, purging wrong desires.
Could Christ become my self entire?

So much him, so little me
That in my eyes it’s him they see.
What’s it like to a Mary be?
No longer I, but Christ in me.

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From Next Door Savior
Copyright 2003, Max Lucado

I made a booboo here in the office again. I feel bad. Not so bad though… just bad because I’m getting my third warning. I have to check again what a 3rd warning is equivalent too. I might get kicked out of my job! Noooooooooooooo! That’ll be sad. I’ll be terminated because of my memory gap. Waaaaaaaaaah.

Oh well… I have to do better at work if I wanna get filthy rich. But I don’t want that. But I wanna be good… or better. But of course.

Our Korean agent gave me a test call a while ago… she described him as an “important client”. Oh yikes. What made him important? Well he’s the vice president of this bank in Korea. I just didn’t hear well the name of that bank because it has a korean name. anyway… he’s very quiet and i hope i can make him talk. he’s still not my regular student but i’ll give him 5 test calls. Goodnesses! But I hope I can have him as my student. it’ll be a challenge. One of the challenges here at work is to make your students talk. Sometimes when the student is very shy he will just ————————- yeah… no words. I used to have that student. Thank God he’s starting to talk more now. Before he’ll just say 3-word sentences. Haaaaay…. it was frustrating. I actually don’t know what got into him but when he renewed his contract he suddenly got a little bit talkative and he laughs a lot now. I’m happy because of that. ^^

Now I have a potential student who’s a veice-president of a bank. I have 3 other students who are doctors. 2 prosecutors (one of ‘em is a soon to be judge), I used to teach a judge, a piano teacher, a supervisor or senior manager of Bank of Korea, engineers, SPED teacher, homemakers, accountants, and there you go…. they are all interesting people. I love ‘em. ^^

By the way… I already have an ID. Finally after being employed in this company for 8 months… we have an ID! But I don’t like my picture there… they chopped my hair. Hrmph… so un-me.*pout, pout, pout, pout* I don’t think people will believe that the person in the ID is me.