Philemon 1:6 reads, "I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective and powerful because of your accurate knowledge of every good thing which is ours in Christ."
This verse emphasised to me that there are good things to be experienced in Christ and I know that I have already, but there must be more! Paul in Corinthians says that we only know in part, so as we travel this journey we understand more and more what these good things are.
Another thing this scripture points out is that these things are OURS. These good things in Christ belong to us also!
There's a difference between borrowing something and owning something. There are good things in Christ that we don't see as ours also - we only see them 'in Christ'. Whilst I was studying a few years ago I rented a house with a few friends. Although we lived in the house, the house wasn't ours. If I wanted to make certain changes, put things up or move things around, who I would I have ask? The owner. Now (many years later) me and my husband now thankfully own our own house. We have the freedom to do to our house what we please. It is not borrowed, it's owned!
It's the same with the things in Christ. They are not borrowed, they are owned! They are ours. So we are free to use them as we please. It's not for us to gain the good things that are in Christ, but it is for understand that they are already ours!
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