Php 3:21 who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it shall be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of the power with which he is able to subdue all things to himself.
Who will be changing the schematic of the body of our lowness for it to be adapted to the same form, essence, and nature of the body of His glory, according to the energy of His ability to militarily subject all things to the image of that body.
The ultimate call of the Christian is to be conformed (the same form) to the inward image of the Lord Jesus Christ, the body of His glory, locked in the heart of the believer. This is a promise for the here and now.
Obviously, total transformation will not ensue until the heavenly ages come upon us. But for us this process can well get on its way through a continual progression of death and resurrection by our obedience to the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit. The more is our obedience, the more is the transformation, and conversely so.
The body of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, perfected in the fullness of God, anxiously awaits assimilation and incorporation into oneness with every believer. It is locked up in a mystery in the heart of every Christian.
Wherever there is sin or the love of a sin, total unification and integration with this amazing body is impossible. There comes a day for the believer, hopefully, when he or she gets fed up with sin, self-will or self-seeking. There comes that day, when the Christian, like a thundering river, passionately desires nothing else but to merge and dissolve into union with this inward body. No sin, nothing of this life, can hold them back then.
By the reckoning of faith, in Romans four, the believer bargains out all worldly achievement, to gain the secret of all life, union with the Lord Jesus Christ, in the body of His glory. The Christian finds that this body of glory was hers all the time. It is there for the taking in the life of every believer.
Phillip 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Mt 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Christ Jesus does it. He, by His ability, inside of you, will subject your innermost being into Him and will change the whole schematic of your life.
Yesterday, I realized that my love of sin has held me back from having the capacity of rushing headlong and dissolving myself into the principle of the glorified Christ in me.
I think that today, I am done with sin. Today, I have started the journey of reckoning union with the body of the glory of my wonderful Lord Jesus, my best friend, faithful, gentle and true.
Oh, the glories of following the Lord Jesus Christ. He gets better with every passing day, thirty one years later.
