Christ in You

The following is from Max Lucado's  book Grace:

"Paul said, 'It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me' (Galatians 2:20).  When grace happens, Christ enters.  'Christ in you, the hope of glory' (Colossians 1:27).

"For many years I missed this truth.  I believed all the other prepositions:  Christ for me, with me, ahead of me.  And I knew I was working beside Christ, under Christ, with Christ.  But I never imagined that Christ was in me.

". . . Yet Christians embrace this inscrutable promise . . . The Christian is a person in whom Christ is happening.

"We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him.  But, even more, we are increasingly him.  He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues.  He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices.  Little by little a new image emerges.

". . . Christ lives and works and moves in you."